SQL Server Failover Clustering is created within the Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS), which is capable of detecting the hardware and software failures to switch the managed resources for the instance automatically. Clustering provides availability for the most critical applications and flexibility in managing the workload within the cluster.
The setup change for SQL Server 2008 needs to run the setup program on each node that is involved as part of the failover cluster and also offers an option to create an enterprise push node from the active node with a configuration file. Many of the SQL Server services are cluster-aware, such as Analysis Services, Full-Text search, Integration Services, and FILESTREAM. In this recipe, we will go through the important steps required to install and configure the SQL Server 2008 R2 failover cluster services within the data platform.