A recent issue I saw was that the SQl service would not come on line on an x64 cluster. my prefered method of looking at cluster failovers / failure to start is to first look at the errorlog. This is to a large part to get aquainted with the server and...

The server in question was once a SQL2000 cluster and had been upgraded by some means to SQL2005, following this when opening Cluster Administrator the following error is displayed immediately. An error occurred attempting to read properties for the ...