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sql server clustering : set up multi instance cluster



Hassan
8/19/2007 6:34:20 PM
Is there any article where one can set up say a 4 node cluster with 2 or 3
instances?

If I have a 4 node cluster with 2 instances and say instance 1 and 2 are
tied to node 1 and node 2 respectively... is there any priority where we can
specify that if node 1 fails, instance 1 will move to node 3 and if node 3
is down, then it would fail to node 4. Can you have those types of settings
where you can fail in order of priority ?


Geoff N. Hiten
8/20/2007 8:07:25 AM
You can set the preferred node order in the cluster admin tool. You can
also script changes in order using cluster.exe

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Geoff N. Hiten
Senior SQL Infrastructure Consultant
Microsoft SQL Server MVP


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Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]
8/22/2007 11:20:59 PM
Its not easy, but it can be done. See Geoff's response.

Cheers,

Rodney R. Fournier
MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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Linchi Shea
8/22/2007 11:49:37 PM
Windows failover clustering doesn't support complex failover policies such
as cascading the failover among multiple nodes in a certain order. There is
little need for this type of policy in my opinion.

I'm curious as to whether you have any practical reason for such a
requirement.

Linchi

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Hassan
8/25/2007 11:26:35 AM
I am trying to compare it with tools like Polyserve that has those
capabilities along with eliminating the shared disk subsystem aspect.

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