September 8, 2011 at 7:38 am
Hello -
I'm in the process of setting up a two node cluster on VM. One of my questions is when it comes to the point to create the cluster does the Cluster name and ip have to be a server that I can access?
Also does the SQL instance have to be a server as well. Pardon my ignorance to this. I have the picture in my head of it but the big picture is blurry.
Regards,
David
September 8, 2011 at 8:24 am
How would you not be able to access the cluster? If you're setting it up, then you pick a non-used name for the cluster. Not an existing Windows host.
For the "server" question, I'm not sure what you mean. What are you thinking, or confused about?
September 8, 2011 at 8:30 am
Thank you for reply - On our current sql cluster setup our admin made the Cluster name a server you can log into along with the two nodes. I was stuck on the section. 'Access Point for Administering the Cluster'. I thought that had to be a server as well for a total of 4.
One = Cluster server name (or group) Two = Node 1 Three = Node 2 and Four = SQL server?
But it looks like all I need is the two node servers and everything is kinda like vitual to the cluster. Correct?
Thanks
September 8, 2011 at 8:38 am
SQL Server instances take the name of the windows host. That could be a real host, or the Windows cluster.
A 2 node cluster has 3 names. SQL Server responds to those.
September 8, 2011 at 11:50 am
September 9, 2011 at 9:29 am
A BIG Thank you to everyone who responded all this information really helped us out.
Thank you again. 🙂
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