This agent provides high availability for Microsoft SQL Server by monitoring the SQL Server instance and its services in a VCS cluster.
The agent detects an application failure if a configured virtual server becomes unavailable. When this occurs, the SQL Server service group is failed over to the next available system in the service group's system list. The configured SQL Server services and virtual server are started on the new system. The agent monitors specific resources within an enterprise application, determines the status of these resources, brings them online, and takes them offline. The agent also provides active-active support for SQL Server. In an active-active configuration, several SQL Server instances are intended to run on a single node when necessary.
The VCS agent package for SQL Server includes the following: