Hello all..........I am trying to create a multi-site failover cluster (Sql Server 2012). Due to some support issues, I am unable to use AOAG, so I have decided to use Mirroring among two-2 locations with each
location holding separates instances. Consider following:
There is Location A and B.
There are two-2 servers each in Location A and B. They have their own storage.
Location A already has two-2 node failover cluster. It has instance named Instance_A.
We need to introduce two-2 nodes from Location B to the failover cluster in Location A with its separate instance named Instance_B? How can I make it work?
If I go ahead with the setup.exe from SQL media and try to add node, it will ask me to choose the instance and the only instance available would be Instance_A, but I do not want it to connect to Instance_A. I
want to join the two-2 nodes in Location B to the failover cluster in a way that Instance_B stays on Location B servers and Instance_A stays on Location A servers. So that I can configure mirroring among the two. I would appreciate headway into this. Thanks.