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sqlmyworld
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Posted - 2012-08-14 : 01:14:23
This is first time I am installing Active/Active 2008 R2 cluster on Windows 2008 R2 server. I am installing SQL system databases on specific dedicated drive D (means not default C: Drive) and it is local drive to server on both nodes. Now Let say node 1 has db1, db11, db111 and node2 has db2, db22 and db222. when one node failed over to another (for example node 1 failed) how db1, db11 and db111 are available as the drive D (of node 1) is not failed over which contains system db (master, msdb etc)? Also we have separate drives (SAN) for Data, log, backup and tempdb for both nodes.

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komkrit
Yak Posting Veteran

60 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-14 : 05:35:32
While you are installing, choose shared drive(SAN) for all databases path including system database(master, msdb, tempdb etc), otherwise you can not failover to another node.

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Komkrit Yensirikul
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sqlmyworld
Starting Member

38 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-14 : 21:22:53
Thanks Komkrit. I successfully installed failed over cluster with SQL default instance.
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