Aidan Finn, IT Pro

Microsoft has posted a hotfix for a scenario where a cluster node crashes when you restart a computer in a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment.

• You deploy a failover cluster in a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment.
• You enable the Volume Shadow Copy Service on a cluster disk.
• You replace a host bus adapter (HBA) on a cluster node.
• You restart the cluster node.

In this scenario, the cluster node crashes.  This issue is triggered by a deadlock that occurs when the computer restarts.

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft.

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