• If both nodes are supposed to have SQL running on them, it's not an active-passive cluster. It's an active-active cluster.

    Not hard to implement. Install one instance of SQL on the one node (with its disks and cluster group) and install another (different name) instance on the second node, with its own set of disks and cluster group.

    Gail Shaw
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