November 2008
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
27h 16m
English
book
Professional Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Administration
by Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Ross LoForte, Steven Wort
Content preview from Professional Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Administration
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
20.5. Clustering Windows Server 2008
Before you can install SQL Server 2008 clustering, you must first install Windows Server 2008 failover cluster services. Once it is successfully installed and tested, then you can install SQL Server 2008 clustering. In this section, we take a high-level, step-by-step approach to installing and configuring Windows 2008 clustering.
20.5.1. Before Installing Windows 2008 Clustering
Before you install Windows 2008 clustering, you need to perform a series of important steps. This is especially important if you didn't build the cluster nodes, as you want to ensure everything is working correctly before you begin the actual cluster installation. Once they are complete, then you can install Windows 2008 clustering. Here are the steps you must take:
Ensure that all the nodes are working properly and are configured identically (hardware, software, and drivers).
Confirm that each node can see the data and quorum drives on the shared array or SAN. There are other quorum options but we'll start here for our installation. Try writing a file to the disk to ensure that the other nodes can see the file.
Verify that none of the nodes have been configured as a domain controller or that you have multiple domain controllers in your environment or any other critical services such as Exchange running on them.
Verify that all drives are NTFS and are not compressed.
Ensure that the public and private networks are properly installed and configured.
Ping each node in the ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.