Install Guide
5 Accept the license terms and click Next.
6 Check the product updates and click Next.
7 Make sure that the Setup Support Rules screen does not display any failures or errors. You can ignore the warnings and click Next.
8 Select the SQL Server Feature Installation option in the Setup Role screen and click Next.
9 Select all the options under Instance Features → Database Engine Services , and Shared Features → Client Tools Connectivity on
the Feature Selection screen. Click Next.
10 Make sure that the Feature Rules screen does not display any failures. Click Next.
11 In the Instance Conguration screen, enter the following details:
• SQL Server Network Name – WDMCLUSTER
• Named Instance – WDMCLUST
• Instance ID – WDMCLUST
Click Next.
12 Check the Disk Space Requirements and click Next.
13 Leave the default settings on the Cluster Resource Group screen and click Next.
14 Since you have congured a File Share Majority clustering, you do not need to select any disk. Click Next on the Cluster Disk
Selection screen.
15 In the Cluster Network Conguration screen, enable IP4 and provide the IP address for the SQL Failover cluster and click Next to
proceed to the Server Conguration screen.
16 Enter the domain credentials for the SQL Server Agent and SQL Server Database Engine and click Next.
17 In the Database Engine Conguration screen, select the Mixed Mode (SQL Server authentication and Windows authentication)
option and enter the SQL Administrator password.
18 Click Add Current User to add the Administrator user and click Next.
19 You will be prompted to install a SQL Failover Cluster. Click Yes on the prompt.
20 Click the Data Directories tab on the Database Engine Conguration screen. In the location for the Data root directory, enter \
\<
Name of the Quorum VM
>\quorum. Click Next.
21 Check the Error Reporting screen and click Next. You can ignore the warnings.
22 Make sure that there are no failures in the Cluster Installation Rules screen. Click Next.
23 Click Install to begin the installation.
24 The Installation Progress screen displays the progress of installation. Click Next when the installation completes.
25 Click Close to complete the installation. The Failover Cluster Manager should be displayed in Server Manager under Features.
Post Clustering Procedure
About this task
This section discusses the various steps you need to perform after you complete the cluster setup. These steps enable your cluster to
function smoothly without any issues.
Follow the steps given below:
Steps
1 In both the cluster nodes, make sure that the SQL Server Services are started up with the domain credentials.
2 Launch the SQL Server Conguration Manager and select SQL Server Services → SQL Server. Right click and select Properties.
3 Check the domain credentials and click OK.
4 Click the AlwaysOn High Availability tab on both the nodes and select the Enable AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Click OK.
5 Install the WDM database on VMs that you have identied as the primary and secondary nodes of the cluster.
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Conguring High Availability database clustering for WDM