DP-300 Certification Practice Question #262

Question

You have an Azure subscription. The subscription contains three virtual machines that run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

You plan to implement a highly available deployment of Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on the virtual machines by using failover cluster instances (FCIs).

You need to prepare for the implementation.

What should you do first on each server?

Accepted Answer

To deploy a Microsoft SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), you must first establish the high availability clustering infrastructure. This is managed by Pacemaker on Linux. Therefore, the first step on each server is to install the cluster resource manager (Pacemaker) and the SQL Server FCI resource agent (`mssql-server-ha`), which allows Pacemaker to orchestrate the SQL Server services.

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