We are in the process of building a new Windows 2008 R2 cluster with SQL 2008 R2. Really nice hardware too. 20 cores and 256 GB of ram. While we were planning this new environment several other new projects came in to build additional SQL boxes. Why buy one when you can buy to right? So now we have the opportunity to setup additional clusters. The question I am asking my boss is why? Why build a cluster if the SLA or business need isn't there. We could simply mirror the databases for HA like we do for everything else. His response back was, why not build another cluster even if the SLA doesn't warrant it. Considering at this point in my career the only involvement I have had to date with clustering is reading about it and failing ours over once, I can't really offer the best explanation of why not, or why to for that matter. The geek in me wants to build it for the sole purpose of gaining additional knowledge of clustering but I would like to give a more educated response. So today's Friday fun question from me, is "What would you do and why"?
I am looking forward to the responses. Cheers and everyone have a great weekend.
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