I have a Hyper-V Failover Cluster running using manually-configured IP addresses. On this cluster, among other machines, I have two Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Machines running failover cluster, intended for use in clustering file services. The 2 Cluster Host machines for the file server receive their IP addresses properly through DHCP. However, the cluster is NOT able to receive an IP through DHCP.
I find the following error in the cluster log:
Event ID 1240: Cluster IP address resource 'Cluster IP Address' failed to obtain a leased address.
What might be causing this problem? How can I resolve it?
Best Answer
Firstly what do you mean by "properly through DHCP"? it's generally a bad idea to use DHCP for servers
Secondly it's a really bad idea to use DHCP for cluster VIPs.