"Reddi" <Reddi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
>
> In MS Clustering the failover happens only at hardware level or it can
> also
> happen at application level? I mean If I am running two nodes, node1 &
> node
> 2. both these servers hardware has no issues but SQL server on node1 has
> some
> problem, will it be able to use SQL server on node2?
>
> Thanks
>
> Reddi
>
>

"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" wrote:

> Sure. If a resource stops responding either due to hardware or software
> failure, it will fail over. You can test this by using the Move Group
> command from the Cluster Administrator tool.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rod
>
> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
> http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
> http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
>
> "Reddi" <Reddi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F05B1776-F173-4795-A0ED-6751749AB867@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > In MS Clustering the failover happens only at hardware level or it can
> > also
> > happen at application level? I mean If I am running two nodes, node1 &
> > node
> > 2. both these servers hardware has no issues but SQL server on node1 has
> > some
> > problem, will it be able to use SQL server on node2?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Reddi
> >
> >
>
>