Installing A Failover Cluster

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Vincel2k2 - 15 Jan 2005 17:07 GMT

I have two matched servers, one will be Active and one will be Passive.
The servers have Windows 2000 Advanced Server and I have SQL Server 2000
Enterprise Edition.
My question is, do I also need a box called a Shared Disk Array, or can I
use another server I currently have that has lots of disk space on it?

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Vincel2k2 - 15 Jan 2005 17:19 GMT

Correction: I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server

> I have two matched servers, one will be Active and one will be Passive.
> The servers have Windows 2000 Advanced Server and I have SQL Server 2000
> Enterprise Edition.
> My question is, do I also need a box called a Shared Disk Array, or can I
> use another server I currently have that has lots of disk space on it?

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Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] - 15 Jan 2005 19:20 GMT

You will indeed need shared storage.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

> Correction: I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server
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>> My question is, do I also need a box called a Shared Disk Array, or can I
>> use another server I currently have that has lots of disk space on it?

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Mike Epprecht $SQL MVP$ - 15 Jan 2005 23:26 GMT

Hi

You need to get your self a Storage Area Network (SAN) to store your data
on.

For clustering, make sure that your hardware is on the Windows Hardware
Compatibility List (HCL)

Read the documentation on
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/clustering/default.mspx
to get an understanding.

Regards
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Zurich, Switzerland

IM: mike@epprecht.net

MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp

Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/

> Correction: I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server
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> > My question is, do I also need a box called a Shared Disk Array, or can I
> > use another server I currently have that has lots of disk space on it?

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al_stark_born - 26 Jan 2005 05:11 GMT

I also have two matched servers with Win2003EntSrv that I would like to
install an active/passive failover cluster of Yukon on. Since this is a lab
environment and I don't have the $$ for a SAN, will it work with a Network
Storage HD? I realize the performance won't be great, but I'm looking for
the experience in how to build/configure the environment.

Any tips?

An alternative question for the lab environment is ... how would you do this
in two VPC? Or would you steer clear?

Thanks

Al

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Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] - 26 Jan 2005 15:52 GMT

Virtual Server 2005 will work nicely for this test. See
http://www.hands-on-labs.com/microsoft.asp?ID=4477 for the steps :)

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

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> install an active/passive failover cluster of Yukon on. Since this is a
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