I am trying to setup a simple SQL Server 2014 Failover Cluster. I am using WS 2012 R2 and I have three VMs. The first is a DC and the other two are the two SQL Server Nodes. I've gone through the WSFC installation and the SQL installations. Everything loads up fine. I can move the SQL Cluster instance between the two nodes and the services start up just fine. I can also login and do whatever I need to do. The problem is I can only login from the local server that happens to have the SQL services running. As soon as I try and login to the SQL Cluster (called SQLNET) from a remote machine I get an error that says "Network Name not Found".
Firewall is disabled on all nodes. TCP and UDP are both open for all ports. I have SQL Browser running on all the nodes. But, when I try and ping the IP address associated with my SQL Cluster Resource Group I get "Destination Host Unreachable". Should I be able to ping that IP address remotely?
I've read up on similar situations for Azure and general guidance is to setup an Internal Load Balancer to get past that error. I am doing this on Amazon EC2. Is a load balancer required for this type of configuration? Can't I just access the IP address of my SQL Cluster Object from the same network? All of these nodes are on the same subnet, BTW.
Thanks for any help or guidance!