KB IssueWhen adding disks to a Microsoft Failover Cluster you receive the following error. No disks suitable for cluster disks were found.
Issue Details
When trying to add a disk to a Microsoft Failover Cluster, you may experience the following error if the disk was previously assigned to another Failover Cluster.
No disks suitable for cluster disks were found. For diagnostic information about disks available to the cluster, use the Validate a Configuration Wizard to run Storage tests.
Recreate Issue
When the Virtual Disk is assigned to another Failover Cluster, you will not be able to access these drives until they are freed from the other cluster. Whether the cluster exists or not, you will get the error.
Resolve Issue
On the server, you are using the Failover Cluster Manager to administer the cluster.
  1. Open Disk Management
  2. Start PowerShell under Administrator
  3. Run Clear-ClusterDiskReservation -Disk #
    4. Change the Disk # to the actual Virtual Disk number.
    This can be found inside of Disk Management.
    Do this for each Virtual drive, until complete.
  4. clear-ClusterDiskReservation
  5. Are you sure you want to clear the disk reservation on node ServerName?
  6. [Y] Yes [N] No [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"):
  7. Choose [Y] and press [Enter]
  1. In Failover Cluster Manager
  2. Click on the [Add Disk]
  3. Select all Disks to add to the cluster.