I am new to fail-over clustering, I have a two node Windows fail-over cluster (windows server 2016) with SQL Server 2016 Installed in cluster mode which configured successfully and everything is working fine. I needed to configure an Always-On Availability to a DR site, but ended up in error while adding the third node.
I have uninstalled Antivirus,checked for duplicate name in the AD of which there are non and it didn't fix my problem.
Cluster service on node xxxxxxxx did not reach the running state. The error code is 0x5b4. For more information check the cluster log and the system event log from node xxxxxx. This operation returned because the timeout period expired.
Operation failed, attempting cleanup.
The server 'xxxxxx.xxx.net' could not be added to the cluster. An error occurred while adding node 'xxxxxx.xxxx.net' to cluster 'xxxxxx'.
This operation returned because the timeout period expired
From the event viewer in failover cluster manager it says xxxxx has been evicted from the cluster.
You should first run following PowerShell command
Clear-ClusterNode -Name nodeName -Force
After running this command try to add node back to the cluster