Tuesday, April 17, 2018

2008 Cluster install fails on newer Windows 2012/2016

Tried to install SQL 2008 R2 on Windows 2016 = fails, cluster verification fails
SQL 2014 was a-okay

PowerShell (Admin mode)
Install-WindowsFeature -Name RSAT-Clustering-AutomationServer

Error to install SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2012 – Marcelo's Spaces
https://marcelodba.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/error-to-install-sql-server-2008-on-windows-2012/

https://manjusullad.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/unable-to-install-sql-2008-on-windows-server-2012-failover-cluster/