Moving db to cluster

i have a customer that wants to move the sql db from sccm to a cluster,
i have the procedure how to do this, but the question is: what about the collation that is required for sccm?
if the sql cluster has not the correct collation, can we create a  new instance and define the collation there, I thought collation is a sql server setting?

if the sql cluster has not the correct collation, can we create a  new instance and define the collation there, I thought collation is a sql server setting?
Collation is set per-instance but can also be set per DB -- it is not a system wide system. I would highly recommend that if they go down this route they create a separate instance no matter what though so that resources (like memory) can be allocated specifically
and separately to the ConfigMgr DB and that the sysadmin requirement of the site server's computer account does not become an issue (note though the site server requiring local admin permissions on all systems/nodes in the cluster hosting the SQL instance
will most likely become an issue here though).
I'm with Garth here also -- doing this only provides on-paper benefits while increasing complexity, negatively affected perf, and not truly increasing availability.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

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