Installing SQL Server
For SQL Clustering, you must install a new SQL Server instance within a minimum two-node cluster. You should not move a SQL Server instance from a nonclustered configuration to a clustered configuration. If you already have SQL Server installed in a nonclustered environment, you need to make all the necessary backups (or detach databases) first, and then you need to uninstall the nonclustered SQL Server instance. Some upgrade paths and migration paths are possible from prior versions of SQL Server and Windows server. You are also limited to a maximum of 25 instances of SQL Server per failover cluster. There is no uninstall SQL Server failover cluster option; you must run Setup from the node that is to be removed. You must ...
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