Thats great guys thanks for the help again 🙂

So in Microsoft language a user is someone using an application with a SQL backend and not someone who access the SQL instance directly e.g. a DBA.

If I can follow this up a bit further now. It seems our server use NUMA although we only have 2 physical CPUs with the 4 cores as mentioned...

These are Intel Xeon E5540 chips. Thanks for the link about TempDB btw.

Hey thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the resource does not already exist in failover manager, I am creating the cluster from scratch. I have created the Windows Cluster...

Our network guys have been unable to find the IP address in DNS and so gave us another one to try, but we are getting exactly the same error. ...

Hi sorry it seems the environment was removed so can't get a pic of the logins, but the account I used was not in the logins section neither was any...

Sorry I will try to clarify.

I logged onto the server using a domain account X that is also part of the local admins group, this is what I am calling...

This was a SQL 2008 R2 install and built in admins is removed by default now, so no that group was not present.

No it wasn't actually, it was a single instance install on a VM.

have moved thread

Bah typically the SQL 2008 R2 cluster support isn't available until the next release. I have contacted him about it though.

Any other thoughts?

I am not sure what you mean, I had dedicated domain accounts for each service.

For those that are interested I had to launch cmd as administrator and I could execute the commands.

Ok cool thankyou