September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
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111h 8m
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As you can see in Figure 21.23, one of the nodes in the SQL Server cluster (CLUSTER1) has failed, and MSCS is in the middle of failing over to the other node in the cluster (CLUSTER2). As you can also see, the CLUSTER2 node item group has an hourglass on it, indicating that an MSCS operation is under way. The states of the resources on CLUSTER2 are mostly Online Pending. In other words, these resources are in the middle of failing over to this node. As they come up successfully, Online Pending turns to Online.
Figure 21.23 Failing over from CLUSTER1 to CLUSTER2, Online Pending state.

In addition, the failure of a node (for any ...
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