Hello All,
I have a question on SQL Server 2008 R2 Std Edition clustering. I am trying to setup clustering for our SQL Server staging environment. We have a lot of applications and all of them are using the name of our database server which is CPNDB01 in their app config connection strings. But if I setup clustering and bring up a new node CPNDB02 and perform a failover do you think I need to change the name of the database server in the connection string to CPNDB02 for all of our applications?
I know we need to create a virtual ip address for SQLServer as well and we can use that in the connection string to prevent the name change every time a failover or a failback is performed. But what if I have to use only Server name but no IP in my app connection string?
Thanks for your inputs