Marios Philippopoulos (2/26/2014)

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We have an active-passive cluster with 2 nodes, A and B, hosting a failover-cluster SQL instance (FCI).

When first installing the FCI, we first installed it on A and then used the "Add node to cluster" feature to install it on B.

So A was the "active" and B the "passive" node in the cluster configuration of the FCI.

Now A has been corrupted and we need to rebuild the server and re-install the SQL on A.

Should I be using the "Add node to cluster" feature to re-install the SQL on the rebuilt A server?

So my question is:

how do I re-install the SQL failover-cluster instance on a new node that is substituting a failed "ACTIVE" node in a cluster?