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Setting up a SQL Server failover cluster requires the installation of SQL Server as a failover cluster instance on all cluster nodes. If not all the cluster nodes are ready at the time of initial deployment, they can be added and set up later. As part of the setup steps use one of the shared disks setup in prior section (such as SQL_2082_S) as default storage device for SQL Server databases. Other details of how to setup SQL Server failover cluster instance are outside the scope of this document but they can be found in References.
Once the SQL Server failover cluster instance is setup it will appear with “Running” status on Failover Cluster Manager > Roles.
Figure 29. SQL Server failover cluster instance running