Connect to cluster failed on Failover Cluster Manager

Symptoms

Situation 1

Issue: Cannot connect to cluster, error code 0x80070005, access is denied.

This situation is that not have access rights.

Situation 2

Issue: The operation has failed, access is denied.

This situation is that have access rights, but the credential is incorrect.

Solution

  1. Update the system patches to the latest.

  2. Ensure that the account have sufficient permissions to access the cluster.

Get-ClusterAccess -Cluster 'MyCluster'
Grant-ClusterAccess -Cluster 'MyCluster' -User 'sj\clumgr' -Full
  1. Add the account to local administrators group on cluster node.
Add-LocalGroupMember -Group 'administrators' -Member 'sj\clumgr'
  1. Check the Control Panel\User Accounts\Credential Manager\Windows Credentials.