Silly as it sounds, we have a SQL2008r2 Clustered SharePoint farm with only one node. We did intend to have 2 nodes but due to costs and other projects taking priority it was left as is.
We have decided to virtualise the Database server (to be SQL2008r2 un-clustered) to take advantage of VMware H/A etc.
Our current setup is
shareclus = cluster (1 node – sharedb (SharePoint database server))
shareapp1= application server (LB)
shareapp2 = application server (LB)
shareweb1 = WFE (LB)
shareweb2 = WFE (LB)
and would like to go to
sharedb01vm = SharePoint Database server
shareapp1= application server (LB)
shareapp2 = application server (LB)
shareweb1 = WFE (LB)
shareweb2 = WFE (LB)
So at the moment the database is referenced in Central Addministration as shareclus. If I break the cluster, shareclus will not exist so I don’t think I will be able to use aliases(?) but I’m not sure.
Can anyone help? Has anyone done this before? Any tips/advice to migrate or otherwise get the SQL DB virtualised would be greatly received.