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Kenny
Asked: 2011-08-05 05:49:21 +0800 CST

Is it possible to set up multiple named instances running on a SQl Server 2008 R2 Active/Passive Cluster?

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I'm trying to plan a SQL Server 2008 R2 2 node Active/Passive failover cluster.

Is it possible to set up multiple named instances running on the cluster? e.g.

sqlcluster
sqlcluster\demo
sqlcluster\dev

And could demo and dev share the same SAN LUN?

Thanks,

Kenny

sql-server-2008 cluster storage architecture

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Yes you can have multiple instances on the same cluster.

    No they can not share the same LUN. When SQL is clustered, the LUNs are dedicated to the specific instance.

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  2. Is it possible to set up multiple named instances running on the cluster?

    Yes.

    And could demo and dev share the same SAN LUN?

    Yes, but depending on your IO performance, it might not be a good idea.

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