Hi there,

I have a fail-over cluster that consists of two nodes.
Active/Passive (one owner preferred). Two nods connected
to external disk array. Everything has been working fine
in this environment except of one thing:

The Virtual SQL server is available by the NetBIOS name,
but is not available by the virtual IP address. I have
checked the domain controller; it has an entry in DNS for
the NetBIOS name pointing to the correct IP address. The
servers can ping the NetBIOS name and it comes back with
the correct IP address. And yet, when I put the IP address
in my applications instead of the NetBIOS name- they do
not work (and they are working perfectly fine when I
change the IP address to another non-clustered machine).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nerses

I actually found the solution for the problem. The problem
was that earlier I had to change the IP addresses and
subnets for every member of the cluster and every cluster
service due to relocation. And even though I have followed
through the Cluster Administrator to do all of the
necessary changes, it appears that the old record still
remained in the registry at the following address:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\Cluster\Cluste rIpAddr

After I manually went to the registry and changed the IP
address everything worked fine. I am surprised though,
that the Cluster Administrator did not do the job
thoroughly.

Hopefully this will help someone who has a similar problem.
Cheers,
Nerses