I am brand new to MS Failover clustering. I have created from the checklists that microsoft provides a 2-node failover cluster with Windows 2008 in my test lab. I setup SQL Server as the application. When I did a failover
test, all the services and applications and disk drives and network came up as "online" or "up". Sounds like it worked But does this mean that all the process for failover have completed? The reason i ask is because I
need to down the nodes for our SQL DBAs to work on the SQL instance. I am told this will cause another failover. So, I wonder if there is a time lag that I need to consider before downing the servers.
Cal Miyatake