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Setting up server to add a node to a cluster.

  • August 20, 2013 at 7:48 am

    #278915

    Ok a bit of a different situation that I am used to so I need a sanity check.

    Right now I have a one node cluster, it was a two node cluster but we had a hardware failure so we evicted the bad node from the cluster and are rebuilding windows on the bad node after doing a hardware fix.

    So, that's the setup here is the question.

    I am guessing we add the node back into windows clustering and make it aware of the storage then add the node to sql clustering via sql install. Is that basically it? Can we add the node back to windows clustering without taking down the active node (there is some question here about adding the new node and making it aware of the storage will cause an issue with the active node).

    Thanks, I am used to doing this when I have two ore more existing nodes already in the windows cluster.

  • August 20, 2013 at 7:58 am

    #1643084

    introduce the new node to the cluster and present the storage, then run add node on the new cluster node. Ensure that any validation checks complete successfully before adding the new node to the sql cluster application

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  • August 20, 2013 at 8:28 am

    #1643095

    I am guessing we add the node back into windows clustering and make it aware of the storage then add the node to sql clustering via sql install. Is that basically it?

    Yep thats it.

    Can we add the node back to windows clustering without taking down the active node (there is some question here about adding the new node and making it aware of the storage will cause an issue with the active node)

    No need to take the active node down. Its during the process of adding the node that the node will become aware of the storage. If something is wrong the it will be shown in the validation test.

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