Saturday, March 05, 2011

The local computer is not a member of a windows failover

Don't make the same mistake as I did recently which was installing the wrong edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 in order to make use of Failover Cluster services.

I installed Standard edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 but in order to make use of the Failover Cluster services and managment snap-in, you need either Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacentre or Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.

Attempting to install SQL Failover Cluster in standard edition will give you the following error message during the validation process: The local computer is not a member of a windows failover

This document describes the whole administration process: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844(WS.10).aspx

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