cluster validation failed - unable to connect via WMI

Question

_{Saturday, February 22, 2014 10:47 PM}

when i try to do a cluster validation on my 2 node cluster, one of the remote nodes shows this

Failed to validate node xxx. Unable to connect to xxx via WMI. This may be a networking issue or firewall configuration on xxx. Access is denied. (Exception from HRRESULT: 0x8..

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_{Monday, February 24, 2014 1:19 AM ✅Answered}

Thanks for posting.

please use below link as a reference for troubleshooting access issues with your cluster node

Trouble Connecting to Cluster Nodes? Check WMI!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/11/23/10095621.aspx

Nirmal Madhawa Thewarathanthri

_{Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:02 AM}

Hi,

Base on my experience, it maybe the firewall block some node request issue, please disable all your cluster node firewall and AV soft then try again.

The similar thread:

Failed to validate node... via WMI.... Win2k8 Ent 64bit

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/16ec89c2-b8d9-48cf-ad5c-1bac979c3778/failed-to-validate-node-via-wmi-win2k8-ent-64bit?forum=winserverClustering

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_{Tuesday, March 4, 2014 6:20 AM}

Hi,

Just want to confirm the current situations.

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