Re: Questions on disks



"Ray Mond" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23H$0uyv2GHA.5016@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What are the reasons that you are not allowed to install the SQL Server program files on a shared disk that's accessible from all cluster nodes?

uummm, because that is not the way that MSCS clustering is designed?

We have a custom notification application that's written as a windows service. We want to add it to the same resource group as the SQL Server instance, in order to replicate some registry settings. Should we install the service application's executable on a shared disk, or a local disk, and why?

The service is installed on both nodes and set to manual. If the service uses any disk space for storage of settings, then that information is installed on the shared drive in the resource group. Other than that, use generic service resource to run the service in the cluster.


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