Help needed ASAP; 2 node cluster shutdown

[shambles]

OK, long story short. I don't know what I am doing with cluster, nodes needed rebooting but didn't even know about the necessity to do graceful shutdown of services (I know!!)
I couldn't log in remotely so asked someone else to restart, don't know what happened but both servers are shutdown.
It is a file store no exchange or sql thankfully but is the main file store area.
I am not in the office yet to restart but I am now panicing as I don't know how they will restart and the implication of my royal mess up and basically how on earth do I fix it!

[shambles]

server 2003 cluster by the way

Start the last server shutdown first.
Resources on one node will move (actually failover) to any available node
when the other server is shutdown. There a difference betwenn MOVE and
FAILOVER. When you have a choice, always MOVE or TAKE OFFLINE, don't rely on
a failure mode action.
Hopefully the person doing the shutdown waited a bit between shutdowns.

The process that worked for me every time was...The goal is to know where
the Cluster Group was so it can start first.

1) move all groups to one server (example - move all resource groups to
SvrA, SvrB is now empty).
2) shutdown the "empty" server SvrB.
3) Once SvrB is shutdown then shutdown SvrA
...........some time between..................
4) Start up SvrA
5) Wait for SvrA to start (All resources come online)
6) Start up Svr B
7) Move resource groups to desired servers

As long as the cluster knows where it left off, it should know where to pick
up from.
You should always move groups to the last node to be shutdown manually.
Never "force" a resource group to move by a shutdown.
It's more gracefull that way and you know exactly what node your resources
were on at shutdown.



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> OK, long story short. I don't know what I am doing with cluster, nodes
> needed rebooting but didn't even know about the necessity to do graceful
> shutdown of services (I know!!)
> I couldn't log in remotely so asked someone else to restart, don't know
> what happened but both servers are shutdown.
> It is a file store no exchange or sql thankfully but is the main file
> store area.
> I am not in the office yet to restart but I am now panicing as I don't
> know how they will restart and the implication of my royal mess up and
> basically how on earth do I fix it!
>
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