This issue was resolved.  While the Role was configured to only be owned by certain servers, the FCI inside the Role also needed to have it's resolution is described here:...

OK Thanks for the insights.  That was kinda the way I thought this would go, but figured I'd take a chance and bounce it off some other folks.

Thanks again,

-Luke.

Nope, It's no that I don't understand.  I do truly, I've done this a number of times before where I've renamed a traditional FCI.  I understand the computer objects that...

Perhaps I wasn't clear.

@eddie-2 Wuerch, yes what we typically have done in the past with existing FCI's is get everything setup and ready, replicate the data to new instance, then...

Thanks for the information.  Yes we'd already taken into account additional disks etc.  It was more a question of how impactful we'd need to be to the connection strings for...

@dmbaker, thanks for your reply.

The idea behind making a user an owner of a job follows from the want/need to have users who are not SA's manage their own jobs,...

I checked on #sqlhelp and the general feeling was that it either just wouldn't work (no shared resources) and or wouldn't be supported.

I was thinking about HBP as a use...

Yes, this was the issue, we just implemented it in the middle of the month and have been monitoring.  There have been no issues since.  We ended up disabling the...

This in an enterprise class data center, with fully redundant multi core 10Gb Fiber network paths back to the Core switches... The network has been in a rather large state...

The issue started in earnest the middle of April.  The SPF swap didn't work and our network folks are still seeing packet discards on the switch ports so they are...

Frederico's suggestion is good, but these are Windows server 2016 servers and or 2012 with up to date patches as of April 2020.

The large cluster is running on physical machines. ...

Unfortunately, there was never anything of use in the the Windows Events Logs or even SQL Logs.  The only things we could tie back to the issue were the failed...

In the end as we were heading toward the end of the business day, we shut down the instance, deleted the original files, restarted the instance where the database came...

Yeah, that's generally what I'm going to try to do. I hadn't really seen much on this on the web and was wondering if I was "just doing it wrong". ...