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Andrew G
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July 29, 2014 at 9:45 pm
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What sort of alias? DNS or SQL?
The cluster will have a clustered instance name, eg. server\instance. whereas the VM is probably a default instance. A SQL alias will work if there's an application server, otherwise it'll be needed on all clients.