install standalone instance on cluster shared disks

  • Hi,

    I looking for documentation how bypass limitation of installation of standalone instance(s) on shared disks of MFC

    (we do not discus managing clustering at this point)

    At the end I want to have 2 node cluster with standalone sql 2014 on each node sharing drive D:, cluster will be managed by custom powershell

    Installation of standalone on cluster stop at point when I choose to install on shared drive D:

    Thank you

    Alex

  • is there any reason why you want to achieve this way.

  • one of the reasons

    running multiple instances of SQL standard edition on same clustered shared drive

    control over failover

  • i dont think you can achive this.

  • I think you are asking for trouble trying to do this. A stand-alone instance will expect the drives you install SQL on to always be available and present. By nature a shared cluster drive can and most likely will move between cluster nodes when failover occurs.

    If you try and install a stand-alone instance on a shared cluster disk that will move between instances at best you are engineering a design that is meant to go down when you probably do not expect it to. At worst you might be engineering a design that will lose data.

    Joie Andrew
    "Since 1982"

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