Hello,
Appreciate if anybody has come across a cluster failover scenario as below
We have a 3 node SQL cluster environment and all the presented disks are SAN Luns. Each of the nodes are having their own SQL instances and in addition node 3 has a file sharing cluster service for backups.
By oversight, the SAN Luns provided for node 3 where SQL is installed got wiped out and were not available. During this process, the instance failed over to Node 1 and in the Failover Cluster manager it is only showing that the file sharing service was brought up and both the disks and SQL services are showing as failed.
I would appreciate if somebody can clarify the following:
1. If we present the new disk luns to Node 1 where the failover happened will it recognize the disks and show them as available in Failover Cluster Manager.
2. Can we failover the file sharing service and the new disk luns to Node 3 without any issues?
3. Can we re-install SQL with the same instance name as before?
Thanks