Active-active ,active-passive cluster

  • Can someone explain me difference between active-active and active-passive cluster.

    I was in wrong interpretation all these days thinking " if few instances running on A and few on B its active-active , and all of the instances on A then its active-passive" .I now know iam wrong.

    Please explain me exact difference between these .

  • Active/Active is having each node in a cluster hosting a differenet sql instance.

    http://www.sqlmag.com/article/clustering/active-passive-vs-active-active-clustering.aspx

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  • Do you mean to say what i thought before was correct?

    If i have two nodes A,B and two instances X,Y .

    If X,Y are running on A ,and B is idle its a active\passive cluster? Either X and Y can be moved to B any point of time upon hardware failures in A or manual moving of Cluster Group.

    If X is running on A,and Y on B its active\active cluster ?

    Please explain using this scenario.

  • SQL Reddy (3/24/2010)


    Do you mean to say what i thought before was correct?

    If i have two nodes A,B and two instances X,Y .

    If X,Y are running on A ,and B is idle its a active\passive cluster? Either X and Y can be moved to B any point of time upon hardware failures in A or manual moving of Cluster Group.

    If X is running on A,and Y on B its active\active cluster ?

    Please explain using this scenario.

    That is correct in the Microsoft world.

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

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