Hello ,

I'm facing a problem while adding another node the cluster ,

Failover Manager Console stuck on "waiting for notification that node is a fully functional member of the cluster" and then give me an error that the operation takes so long than expected Elapsed Time: -- -- -- ,

The Cluster has one node

Hello

tip: check eventlogs and report and http://sqlserverscribbles.com/2013/06/17/windows-cluster-freezes-at-waiting-for-notification-that-node-is-a-fully-functional-member-of-the-cluster/

It is recomended validate cluster before you adding another node. Run validation for detect where is problem.

How to do:

Validating a Cluster with Zero Downtime

Hi Sir,

Please refer to following article regarding same issue :

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2011/05/31/cluster-installation-time-out-issues.aspx

Best Regards,

Elton Ji