SQL cluster resources may be failing to start in the cluster with no specific error thrown when you are trying to start the SQL Service from the cluster window. If you Generate the cluster logs or in the Event viewer cluster logs you may see this annoying “[RES] SQL Server <SQL Server (DTA)>: [sqsrvres] Failed to start service with error 1062. Please try again”

 

This error doesn’t really give you real clue what’s wrong with the SQL service. You may have to go to Application/System Event logs to find the real cause. The following error will be displayed in the logs section “Unable to allocate enough memory to start ‘SQL OS Boot’. Reduce non-essential memory load or increase system memory.”

This means that there’s not enough memory available on the Cluster node to start the SQL services. You can either failover the SQL service/other concerned service to other participating node or increase the Memory of Cluster node if memory is being fully utilised.

Cluster Logs reads as below:

000011cc.00000568::2015/12/28-04:59:49.866 INFO  [RES] SQL Server <SQL Server (DTA)>: [sqsrvres] Dependency expression for resource ‘SQL Network Name (XYZ_NAME)’ is ‘([9876bf5f-f99d-4de9-84dd-1c286559d994])’
000011cc.00000568::2015/12/28-04:59:49.871 INFO  [RES] SQL Server <SQL Server (DTA)>: [sqsrvres] Starting service MSSQL$DTA…
00000a9c.00001be4::2015/12/28-04:59:50.164 INFO  [NM] Received request from client address CLUSTERNODE_1.
000011cc.00000568::2015/12/28-04:59:51.150 ERR   [RES] SQL Server <SQL Server (DTA)>: [sqsrvres] Failed to start service with error 1062. Please try again
000011cc.00000568::2015/12/28-04:59:51.150 INFO  [RES] SQL Server <SQL Server (DTA)>: [sqsrvres] SQL Server resource state is changed from ‘ClusterResourceOnlinePending’ to ClusterResourceFailed’
000011cc.00000568::2015/12/28-04:59:51.150 ERR   [RHS] Online for resource SQL Server (DTA) failed.
00000a9c.00001778::2015/12/28-04:59:51.150 WARN  [RCM] HandleMonitorReply: ONLINERESOURCE for ‘SQL Server (DTA)’, gen(1) result 5018/0.
000011cc.00000568::2015/12/28-04:59:51.150 INFO  [RES] SQL Server <SQL Server (DTA)>: [sqsrvres] Extended Event logging is stopped
00000a9c.00001778::2015/12/28-04:59:51.150 INFO  [RCM] Res SQL Server (DTA): OnlinePending -> ProcessingFailure( StateUnknown )
00000a9c.00001778::2015/12/28-04:59:51.150 INFO  [RCM] TransitionToState(SQL Server (DTA)) OnlinePending–>ProcessingFailure.

 

If the cluster nodes are VMs and you have Dynamic Memory configured on these VMs, then Live migrate the VM to a more capable VM Host to fix the Dynamic Memory not being allocated to the VMs by the cluster.

 

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