Removing the failover cluster configuration when connected to an external SQL Server instance

To avoid any potential issues with your external SQL Server, you must take extra steps when you remove the existing failover configuration:

1. Backup your existing SQL Server.

2. Stop Node 1 and Node 2 from the failover web console. See Start or stop a node

3. Remove the existing failover cluster configuration from Node 2. See Remove the existing failover cluster configuration.

4. Stop the VMS services on Node 2 or change the address of SQL Server. See Start or stop a VMS service.

5. Remove the existing failover cluster configuration from Node 1. See Remove the existing failover cluster configuration.