I'm going to need to move a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster to a new domain. The Cluster has 3 SQL Server 2008 R2 FCIs. I understand that I'll need to tear down and rebuild the cluster. The cluster will have to use the same physical servers.
When I've removed FCIs in the past we removed the individual nodes. Looking at Alan Hirt's 2008 clusering book apparently you can instead destroy the cluster rather than removing the individual nodes and then destroying the cluster. Are there any downsides to simply destroying the cluster rather than removing the nodes? Is there a preferred approach?
thanks