Failover Clustering with NAS/SMB shares Demo

Question

Hello. I would like to see a demo, either video or slideshow (hands on would be cool too!), that shows how you've overcome the drive letter restriction in Failover Clustering in Denali. The AlwaysOn team mentioned it in your presentations at TechEd, but there wasn't any way to demo it. Thanks...

Answer 1

Hi David,

Failover Clustering over SMB shares support is not avaliable in Denali CTP1(the current public CTP).  This feature will avaliable in next public CTP. You can expect demo or blog on SQL Server Alwayson team blog site till then.

 

Regards,

Min He

Program Manager, SQL Engine

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Answer 2

I published a blog post with the full configuration of a 2012 Failover Cluster on SMB shares today:

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/jonathan/post/Failover-Clustering-without-a-SAN-SQL-Server-2012-and-SMB-for-Shared-Storage.aspx

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