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Issues

  1. In Central admin under Manage Services the Distributed cache service is stuck on starting.
  2. One of the cache hosts in the cluster is down one server A.
  3. More Cache hosts are running in this deployment than are registered with SharePoint for Server A and Server B

Server Config

8 server SharePoint farm Server A and Server B: Distributed cache servers Server C and Server D: Front End servers Server E and Server F: App servers Server G and Server H: OWA servers

Get-cachehost cmdlet Service status Up for both Server A and Server B.

Steps so far

  • Restarted AppFabric service on Server A and Server B
  • Added service account to local admins on Server A and Server B
  • Stop-CacheCluster and Start-CacheCluster
  • Restarted Server A and Server B
  • export-cacheconfigserver

Configuration Server A

HostName : ServerA ClusterPort : 22234 CachePort : 22233 ArbitrationPort : 22235 ReplicationPort : 22236 Size : 5125 MB ServiceName : AppFabricCachingService HighWatermark : 99% LowWatermark : 90% IsLeadHost : True

Configuration Server B

HostName : ServerB ClusterPort : 22234 CachePort : 22233 ArbitrationPort : 22235 ReplicationPort : 22236 Size : 5125 MB ServiceName : AppFabricCachingService HighWatermark : 99% LowWatermark : 90% IsLeadHost : True
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  • Have you tried to restart using Powershell: Stop-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance – Graceful It may help to install latest app fabric CUs/Updates and try again Commented Jan 6, 2016 at 10:11
  • Have you installed the AppFabric CU3 or later? CU7 is the latest CU. There were issues with Distributed Cache functioning as expected with the version of AppFabric that is part of the prerequisites installer Commented Jan 11, 2016 at 22:24

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May be you already fix the issues, But when we had the issue, we repair the DC.

Run the below powershell to repair it.

$instanceName ="SPDistributedCacheService Name=AppFabricCachingService" $serviceInstance = Get-SPServiceInstance | ? {($_.service.tostring()) -eq $instanceName -and ($_.server.name) -eq $env:computername} $serviceInstance.delete()

Now run this one on each server you want to add into cluster.

Add-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance

I highly recommend, start DC on the servers where you want.

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    Two years later - and it still works :) Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 9:45

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