Running Clustered SQL Service 2008 on Network Service Account

Question

Can we use NETWORK SERVICE for clustered SQL Server services? If yes any additional configs needs to be taken care and is this a recomended practice ?

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Trinity

Answer 1

Hi,

For clustered instances it is highly recommended to use a domain user account. You can see permissions required and provided by SQL setup here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143504(v=sql.105).aspx

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Answer 2

remember Keep the cluster startup account password~ otherwise will have trouble.

Answer 3

Network Service is a local system account and you wont be able to run clustered SQL Server with this account. You need to create a account in AD which you are supposed to use it as service account

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