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Stop-Cluster



This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Stop-Cluster', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.

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SYNOPSIS

Stops the Cluster service on all nodes in a failover cluster, which will stop all services and applications configured in the cluster.

SYNTAX


Stop-Cluster [-Cluster <String>] [-Force] [-InputObject <PSObject>] [<CommonParameters>]
Stop-Cluster [[-Name] <String>] [-Cluster <String>] [-Force] [<CommonParameters>]



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DESCRIPTION


The Stop-Cluster cmdlet stops the Cluster service on all nodes in a failover cluster, which will stop all services and applications configured in the cluster. A node can
only function as part of the cluster when the Cluster service is running on that node.



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RELATED LINKS

Online Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=321073
Get-Cluster
New-Cluster
Remove-Cluster
Start-Cluster
Test-Cluster

REMARKS

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Examples


EXAMPLE 1

PS C:\>Stop-Cluster



This example stops the Cluster service on all nodes in the local cluster, which will stop all services and applications configured in the cluster.




EXAMPLE 2

PS C:\>Stop-Cluster cluster1



This example stops the Cluster service on all nodes in the cluster named cluster1, which will stop all services and applications configured in the cluster.