Hey Guys,
Our current PowerEdge T310 server has not been too solid lately, with odd issues popping up every once in a while. My boss wants me to buy another server to set up in our server rack, and have it be a failover server, just in case the PowerEdge T310 has a network issue. This way all our work would not be halted as the database we're using would still be there on the other server.
Now I've never done any failover servers in the past, especially not for database servers. We're running Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with SP2. Our database is roughly 8GB in size, and as far as I can tell we're not even close to reaching the limitations of our current license. However, I'm unsure whether our version of SQL Server 2008 supports failover clustering. Do you need to have a specific version running? Our main DNS server is the same server running the database. Is this going to be an issue? We have another server set up for a secondary DSN. I understand that this is going to complicate the server configuration, or should we just get a new server, and reconfigure it from the beginning hoping that the database will be running fine on the new server? Then we can reconfigure the old PowerEdge T310 server for another task, such as an Exchange server for email.
Any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Peter