Consideration for changing the default port of default SQL instance on Multi-subnet Failover Cluster

Security Hardening or Security Audits in an enterprise are some of the motivation for DBAs to run SQL Server default instance on a non-default port. For standalone instances, there are no challenges in changing the default instance port to non-default port, however for clustered instance there are some considerations since cluster.exe performs IsAlive check by…

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Failed to join the instance to the availability group while configuring AlwaysON

As SQL 2012 is in it’s RC0 phase, I was trying to configure AlwaysON on my 2-node WSFC with node and disk majority.Next I installed Default instance of SQL Server in parallel ( to save some time ) on both nodes of the WSFC.Next I enabled my instances for AlwaysON from SQL Configuration Manager for…