Consider the following situations when registering your instances to a cluster environment.
Failover Cluster Instances (FCI)
- Install the SQL Safe Agent software on all nodes of the cluster.
- Register the Failover Cluster Instances in SQL Safe with the cluster name.
- One node of the cluster will have the SQL Server services running.
- Registering each node will show the active node as accessible.
Availability Groups (AG)
- Register Availability Groups with the AG Listener name.
- You can also register each AG node individually.
- If the AG listener is registered, backup operations can only run on AG databases, like these:
- If the node is registered, any database on that node can be backed up.
- SQL Safe licenses by instance, not by node.
- A five-node AG will consume only one license if the listener is registered.
- If each node is registered in SQL Safe, then you will need one license per node.