Plumbing is in. Storage is connected. Time to merge two standalone servers into a single Windows Failover Cluster — the brain that orchestrates failover for SQL Server (and any other…
SAN built in Part 3; now we connect the nodes to it. The iSCSI initiator on each node binds to its Storage NIC, discovers the target portal, logs in, and…
Networks done in Part 2; now we build the SAN. The iSCSI-Target VM gets the iSCSI Target Server role, the iSCSI service gets bound to the storage NIC ONLY, and…
Part 1 covered architecture; this part is the network plumbing. Three subnets, three named adapters per node, every link ping-tested before any cluster bit gets installed. Skip a ping test,…
Welcome to part 1 of a 13-part deep dive into SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instance (FCI). Before any wizard screens, before any PowerShell, you need the architecture in…
