Pre-requisites
- 2 VMs with Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise
- 2 NICs on each VMs (1 for Public and 1 for Private)
- 4 IP Address for Public Range
- 2 IP Address for Private Range
- 2 Shared Disks (1 for Failover Cluster Quorum Disk and 1 for SQL Cluster Data Disk)
- I used pRDMs for the Shared Disks however there are other options as well
Procedure
Step 1 ) Open Server Manager à Features
Step 2) Select Failover Clustering to install the Failover Clustering Feature
Step3 ) The first step in creating a successful failover clustering, is by validating the existing systems and shared storage. This is done by the option Validate a Configuration
Here we need to select the 2 Servers which are going to be part of the Cluster
Step 4) Create Cluster
We are creating Failover Cluster for SQL so I named it appropriately
What to Follow ?
- SQL 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Installation
- Add Node to SQL Failover Cluster
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