Mark Broadbent diagnoses an error which seems misleading at first:
One such problem is when you use the New-Cluster command to add all your nodes in one go.
New-Cluster -Name magrathea -node server5,server6,server7 -staticaddress 192.168.1.70Simple right? Well no. In this instance I ran into the following error:
New-Cluster : There was an error adding node 'server7' to the cluster the node cannot be contacted. Ensure that the node is powered on and is connected to the network.
Read on for an example of piecemeal debugging. Mark’s advice is to keep things simple, as in this case at least, you can’t count on the error messages coming back to be completely accurate.