Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Bible

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Chapter 29: Clustering


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instance. You do have the option to use DHCP; however, it is highly recommended
specifying a reserved static IP Address.

FIGURE 29-9
Cluster Disk Selection screen.


  1. Click Next. The Server Confi guration screen opens. The Server Confi guration screen
    has two tabs: Service Accounts and Collation. On the Service Accounts tab enter
    the service account name and password for each of your services.
    The Collation tab allows you to change the SQL Server and Analysis Services collation.
    For more information about Collation and Unicode support refer to http://msdn
    .microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143726.aspx.


As a best practice you should use different accounts for the SQL Server Database Engine and SQL Server Agent
accounts to maintain the highest level of security. The startup type for the clustered services is always set to Manual
by default. This setting cannot be changed by design because the Cluster decides which node owns the resources
and therefore which instance should run the services.

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