Enabling the FireDrill attribute
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Enabling the FireDrill attribute

You must edit certain resource types so they are FireDrill-enabled. Making a resource type FireDrill-enabled changes the way that VCS checks for concurrency violations. Typically, when FireDrill is not enabled, resources can not come online on more than one node in a cluster at a time. This behavior prevents multiple nodes from using a single resource or from answering client requests. Fire drill service groups do not interact with outside clients or with other instances of resources, so they can safely come online even when the application service group is online.

Typically, you would enable the FireDrill attribute for the resource type used the configure the agent. For example, in a service group monitoring SQL Server 2008, enable the FireDrill attribute for the SQLServer2008 and the SQLFilestream resource types.

To enable the FireDrill attribute

  1. In Cluster Explorer, click the Types tab in the left pane, right-click the type to be edited, and click View > Properties View.
  2. Click Show All Attributes.
  3. Double click FireDrill.
  4. In the Edit Attribute dialog box, enable FireDrill as required, and click OK.

    Repeat the process of enabling the FireDrill attribute for all required resource types.

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