I have low experience of SQL management because of Configuration Manager, and now I´m thinking about to setup SQL 2012 cluster in my lab enviroment based on Hyper-V 2012 core installation. I tried to study some best practise, but still this is not so clear
for me:
1. WSUS, Configuration Manager, Operation Manager and Virtual Machine Manager will use this SQL cluster. Is it okay that there will be only one instance for all these products and multiple database?
2. What kind of partition structure you would recommend for this scenario? Should quorum disk be placed on a shared storage for SQL installation, or will both nodes contain their own quorum partition? I´m thinking that nodes will have only C: drive with Windows Server and SQL software installed. Other partitions will contain database and will be shared. Should I put instance also on this shared partition?
3. GUI installation of SQL is not supported on core nodes. I´m not going to build a silent install file, it will become too tricky for me now. Should I just sattle for full gui server install for SQL nodes? Is the core use still supported in SQL?
4. Does SQL cluster really require separate File Server, maybe file cluster?
