• Clustering is NOT load balancing.

    Any instance on a cluster is active on one node only. It will be stopped on all other nodes. A multi-instance cluster is a cluster with multiple seperate instances each serving their own databases to their own applications.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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