Perry Whittle (1/28/2015)
S. Kusen (1/27/2015)
The storage for each FCI would be presented to each node of the cluster.No, see above. To recap, you'll only usually unmask the shared storage to nodes where you actually want to install the FCI and just because you may have 4 nodes in your cluster you wouldn't necessarily install the FCI across all nodes.
I knew that was possible. In the solution I had proposed, I was suggesting to install each FCI on each node for optimal failover capability (multi-node failures).
S. Kusen (1/27/2015)
If you only need the separation of newApp OLTP and newApp read-only intent, a 3-node, 2-FCI cluster would probably be a good way to go.
Again, no. The OP is planning to utilise AlwaysOn Availablility groups which are designed to remove the shared storage dependency. By introducing FCIs into the group you lose all automatic failover ability. More on restrictions of an FCI in an AO group can be read here[/quote]
My apologies on this. I didn't catch that OP was looking to remove the dependency on shared storage. I had merely suggested an HA solution that I thought would fit the need.