I got a sql 2012 always on setup between 2 standalone servers in 2 different locations.

I do not understand why I need cluster manager managing the 2 nodes.

I have cluster manager but there is no shared disks. there are 2 nodes under cluster manager and one cluster name.

what would be the different between the cluster name here and the availability group listener name in sql 2012? they are both different names

• Edited by JonDoe321 Saturday, March 21, 2015 11:39 PM

Read those articles

https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/mission-critical-confidence-using-microsoft-sql-server-2012

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/FCI/92196/

hi

So the SQL 2012 listener is no way related to the cluster ip on the Failover cluster manager?

but I can ping the cluster manager ip in cluster manager but not the sql listener ip/name

any idea?