On my continue IT learning and passion.  I have setup two nodes Microsoft SQL Server 2016 clustering on Azure.

There are many preparations that must be done like:

• Setup Azure Networking
• Setup Windows Server 2012 R2
• Setup Domain Controller
• Setup Window Server Clustering.
• Setup Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Clustering
• Setup SQL Service accounts, sql ports, firewall, etc
• Setup the storage like
  • msdt
  • quarum
  • SQLDATA1
  • SQLMASTER1
  • SQLTEMPDB1
  • SQLTRANSLOG1
  • SQLBACKUP1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Domain Controller computer is called IND-DC01

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The two nodes computers are called  INDAXSQLT1N1 and INDAXSQLT1N2 as shown picture below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then, I started the Microsoft SQL Server 2016 setup on Node1 and Node2.

Run Setup.exe as administrator.

Agree to license terms

Choose Instance Features

Database Engine Services (SQL Server Replication, Full-Text Search and Data Quality Services are automatically selected)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncheck DHCP and enter the virtual IP address for this instance.  You may need to enter the Subnet Mask if this is the very first installation of sql on this box.  Leave the Network name as is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enter an account and password for each service.  Leave startup type as manual because it is a cluster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adding the second nodes