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Clustering IP addresses

  • August 2, 2004 at 2:57 pm

    #83460

    In the SQL 2000 Failover clustering setup what IP address(es) should be entered?

    For the cluster I've got an IP address of XXX.XXX.XXX.107

    for Nodes 1 & 2 I've got IP addresses of .103 & .104 respectively.

    If I put in the .107 address I get an error message that says:

    "The IP Address is already in use."

    Do I need a 4th IP address that is not currently in use?

    Thanks.

  • August 2, 2004 at 9:57 pm

    #517362

    The cluster will require an IP address. Each physical node will require an IP address. Each virtual node will require an IP address. All of these need to be distinct.

    Now, for your heartbeat connection, if you have a second set of NICs other than the public interface, each of those NICs will need a unique IP address. You should consider using a different IP scheme than what you normally use (say if 10.x.y.z is your scheme for normal addresses, you'd go with say 192.168.1.x for the heartbeat IPs).

    K. Brian Kelley
    @kbriankelley

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