Sorry Matt,

I did not even think to ask about the windows firewall. We do not use it here, although once in the past i was given a server with...

Matt,

So you are testing from of the cluster nodes or at least on a machine that is on the same firewall leg as the cluster node?

I did just...

is there a firewall between you and the sql server? have you tried hardcoding the port on the server line to connect to ie. sqlserver\instance,port ? ...

Absolutely! And you will be more secure 😉

Some of the info you need depends on how you installed your sql instance. If you have not changed the tcpip port...

If i am not mistaken alias's are machine specific not instance specific. So you would need to create a matching set of alias's on each node for every different...

I'm not sure on your use of named pipes-i am assuming you have a reason for that. But what i might recommend for the SQL -Web communication would be...

Im not sure if the issue you are seeing is the same problem that i had. I just built a sql 2008/win 2008 cluster but the problem also existed...

Yes you must have windows clustered first before clustering SQL as the SQL install steps you run to cluster it are different and run many checks to ensure the correct...