The appliance could not be clustered

Symptom

The appliance could not be clustered. {Enclosure name and bay number} is running as a standalone appliance. The appliance will retry cluster formation periodically.

ID: HACluster.ClusterFormingFailed

Severity: Critical

Health Category: Ha-nodes

Resource URI: /rest/appliance/ha-nodes/{enclosure ID}

Cause

The operation to add a standby appliance failed.

Action
  1. If the retry attempts fail, resolve any alerts describing cluster incompatibility or frame communications issues.
  2. If the issue persists, restart the failed standby appliance by removing and reinstalling it.
  3. If the cluster still cannot form, restart the specified appliance from the Actions menu.