I am in the process of setting up a 2008 R2 SQL cluster using SQL 2008 R2. I have the first node up and running, and all is well. Going through the process to the add the 2nd node, I am stuck.
At the part where you configure the SQL service accounts, the SQL server agent account is greyed out. Hovering your mouse over it shows that field as "Read-Only" The box for the password you can type in, so I went ahead and put in the password I used for the account on the first node. (it's a domain account with the corect privledges). On the database engine section it lets me select my domain account and then I put in the password. Clicking next gives me an error stating that the "Credentials you provided for the SQL Server Agent service are invalid."
I know the password is correct, but without the accout name box being greyed out, I am not sure it is pointing to the right account. Other people too are having this issue: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlsetupandupgrade/thread/aae80395-7d29-4a07-a1b7-29959e78d382 What is marked as a solution on that thread really isn't. Follow up posts show other people at the same spot I am.
I made sure it's not a UAC thing by making sure I ran Setup.exe as an admin. The account I am using is a domain admin account to install it. I saw on Regular 2008 SQL you add to use the local admin account for some types of installs by looking at posts on other blogs. That won't work here. Running the install as a local admin account the rule checks fail because you dont' have remote registry access and other things on the first cluster node.
Is this a bug or what? Anyway around this?
See screenshot here:
http://users.marshall.edu/~carter91/capture.jpg