Adding SQL Node 2 Cluster services (MSCS) verification error

Error Code 0x80071398

Error..! never mind.

I evicted the node from the cluster and re-added it. Validate the cluster. It worked. Reboot when in question.

reinstall the SQL failover cluster on node 2.

I'm thrilled as failover cluster is awesome and religiously working fine. This is now my first step forward to the new infrastructure for SQL 2008 R2 consolidation project. Redundancy at its par.