question about failover

Hi,
In MS Clustering the failover happens only at hardware level or it can also
happen at application level? I mean If I am running two nodes, node1 & node
2. both these servers hardware has no issues but SQL server on node1 has some
problem, will it be able to use SQL server on node2?
Thanks
Reddi
Sure. If a resource stops responding either due to hardware or software
failure, it will fail over. You can test this by using the Move Group
command from the Cluster Administrator tool.
Cheers,
Rod
MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
"Reddi" <Reddi@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> In MS Clustering the failover happens only at hardware level or it can
> also
> happen at application level? I mean If I am running two nodes, node1 &
> node
> 2. both these servers hardware has no issues but SQL server on node1 has
> some
> problem, will it be able to use SQL server on node2?
> Thanks
> Reddi
>
|||Thanks for your time Rod!
Reddi
"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" wrote:

> Sure. If a resource stops responding either due to hardware or software
> failure, it will fail over. You can test this by using the Move Group
> command from the Cluster Administrator tool.
> Cheers,
> Rod
> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
> http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
> http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
> "Reddi" <Reddi@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>