SQL 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Installation

Pre-requisites

1. Windows 2008 Failover Cluster
2. VM with Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise
3. 2 NICs on each VMs (1 for Public and 1 for Private)
4. 4 IP Address for Public Range
5. 2 IP Address for Private Range
6. 2 Shared Disks (1 for Failover Cluster Quorum Disk and 1 for SQL Cluster Data Disk)

Installation

èThe name you specify for the SQL Cluster it will add a DNS entry for the same so ensure it is unique

Select the Cluster disk which we added earlier

Provide the Public Range IP Address. Ensure it is unique as I have faced issue it doesn’t proceed it if its not unique

Specify the account to be used for the installation

Specify the installation directory . Ensure this is the Shared Disk which we created