Clustering Installation Question

MichaelJohns · October 30, 2006 9:34AM

I have read the Knowledge Base article concerning installation on a cluster, but I still have questions.

I have an active-active cluster with more than one instance on each node. Node_A has Node_A\inst_1 and Node_A\inst_2, while Node_B has Node_B\inst_3 and Node_B\inst_4.

I don't have a problem installing the backup software on each instance, but I want to make sure I am adding the SQL Backup Agent service to the cluster correctly.

Do I add the agent service as a resource to each Node a single time or once for each instance on a node?

petey · October 30, 2006 11:44AM

The SQL Backup Agent service is specific to each SQL Server instance, thus you need to add the service as a cluster resource to each instance's cluster group.

In your case, you would need to:

- add the service for inst_1 to the cluster group containing the inst_1 instance
- add the service for inst_2 to the cluster group containing the inst_2 instance
- add the service for inst_3 to the cluster group containing the inst_3 instance
- add the service for inst_4 to the cluster group containing the inst_4 instance

After that, run ProductActivation.exe on the passive node, to activate the SQL Backup license. On the active node, you can run the activation using the GUI.

MichaelJohns · October 30, 2006 1:19PM

Would I need to install the service only once if I have 2 instances running on the same cluster group?

petey · October 30, 2006 7:58PM

Each SQL Backup Agent service only serves one SQL Server instance, regardless of how they are grouped in the cluster.

MichaelJohns · October 31, 2006 6:37AM

Thank you for clearing that up for me.

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