Thursday, December 21, 2006
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In short, YES you should cluster the service if possible.
I have seen lots of posts on this and I think that some recent problems with SSO clustering (see my post here for fixes) may have caused people to shy away from it. If you are running SQL on a cluster, then you may as well tack on another clustered service and have that much more protection. If you are not running SQL in a cluster then clustering the Master Secret Server will probably not make much of a difference for you!
I recently resolved this issue for a client but I suspect that many people have it due to some incorrect documentation regarding the installation of a clustered Master Secret Server.
The Problem:
SSO Master Secret server fails to start after failing over to second cluster node.