Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Installation & Configuration

PRE-REQUISITES

1. 2 VMs with Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise
2. 2 NICs on each VMs (1 for Public and 1 for Private)
3. 4 IP Address for Public Range
4. 2 IP Address for Private Range
5. 2 Shared Disks (1 for Failover Cluster Quorum Disk and 1 for SQL Cluster Data Disk)
   • I used pRDMs for the Shared Disks however there are other options as well

PROCEDURE

Step 1 ) Open Server Manager --> Features

Step 2) Select Failover Clustering to install the Failover Clustering Feature

Step3 ) The first step in creating a successful failover clustering, is by validating the existing systems and shared storage. This is done by the option Validate a ConfigurationHere we need to select the 2 Servers which are going to be part of the Cluster

Step 4) Create Cluster

We are creating Failover Cluster for SQL so I named it appropriately

WHAT TO FOLLOW ?

• SQL 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Installation
• Add Node to SQL Failover Cluster