EADR failing to start Windows 2012 cluster

  • KM02977898
  • 03-Oct-2017
  • 03-Oct-2017

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Summary

EADR recovery wizard on cluster shows the Disaster Recovery Wizard was unable to find ‘D:’ object/drive backed up.

Error

The disaster recovery wizard was unable to find 'D:' object/drive backed up. This object is required to update the disaster recovery information.

Cause

There are 2 possibilities for the ISO image creation failure :

1.      Cluster nodes hostnames not recognized on the target system .

2.      Recovery information used is not merged as desired so information for volume is missing. .

Fix

  • Add cluster nodes and virtual services to hosts file on the target system ( IP_Address FQDN shortname )
  • Use merge tool to merge cluster information.