Configuring in a clustered environment

When you configure AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AAGs) in a Microsoft Windows failover cluster environment or in a Veritas cluster server cluster environment, follow these guidelines.

• Configure each node in the cluster identically. Specify identical configurations in the Data Protection for SQL Server options file.
• Ensure that each availability replica of an availability group is on a different node in the same Windows failover cluster environment.
• Use the Configuration Wizard to register an AlwaysOn Node on the IBM Spectrum Protect™ server. To do so manually, issue the register node command on the IBM Spectrum Protect server.
• To access a clustered SQL Server, identify the virtual server name and specify that name in Data Protection for SQL Server.
• If you use the IBM Spectrum Protect scheduler to automate data backups, install the scheduler service on each node of the cluster to enable failover support.
• Use the clustersharedfolder option in the Data Protection for SQL Server options file (dsm.opt) to specify the directory location in which to store encrypted password files. Specify a directory location that is on a resource that is shared among all nodes in the cluster. For more information, see Clustersharedfolder.