I have a data warehouse transactional replication environment in which
we have muliple Publisher/Distributors(100+) and a single subscriber.
All Publishers and subscribers are SQL 2000.
We recently converted the subscriber box to a Win2003

I am attempting to install my 3rd cluster into an ip5000 iscsi SAN and
I am encountering some very odd behaviour. I have finally concluded
after about 25 hours of testing that there is an issue with the SQL2k
install handling disk volumes of, in this instance, 160GB. I initially

I've read about a thousand different things and really need a straight answer:
I'm setting up clustering on a dual-node W2K3 cluster.
If the applications that are accessing the SQL Server DO NOT utilize MSDTC,
do I need to even bother with creating the group, resources, etc. for ...

 I am getting the above error on the production box which has SQL 2000,
sp3a build 8.00.780 with AWE and PAE enabled and SQL Server (Active/Passive
Cluster) has been allocated 7GB out of the total 8GB on the box.SQL Server
froze for almost 10 minutes and it came back fine after ...

Is there a way to break my Active/Active cluster back to have a single
stand-alone SQL server?
internal politics and a rogue admin who applies security patches willie
nillie to the cluster nodes is causing more downtime than the cluster is

Hi there guys
I am having a problem with a clustered default instance.
During the process of changing the statup parameters with the intention of
moving the Master to a new LUN. The SQL service failed for an unrelated

I am having problems with MSDTC on a 2-node clustered server. I currently
have it added as a resource in a group with disk storage, SQL Server, an IP
Address and a Network name. When I look at the status of MSDTC using MSSQL
Enterprise Manager on either node, it seems to be ...

There on and accessable through Explorer and Disk Management. However when I
try to install SQL as a new virtual instance I only have access to my Quorum
Resources.
Installing Sql2000 on 2003 server Active /Passive.

rirht now my databases running on two seperate sql servers
server1 and server2 and ecah having MSDTC .
Now i am planning to shift these two servers into a
cluster.

Can I put the MSDTC resource in Defaul Cluster Group ? I dont have available
disk to it.
thanks,
Rubens

I am configuring a two node SQL cluster and i have 5 physical disk arrays and
i intend to use them in the following order
disk array 1 for quorum
disk array 2 for DATA

I received the following error when installing the SQL Server 2000 on a
WIndows 2003 Server : Setup failed to perform required operations on the
cluster nodes.
You may also receive one of the following error messages in the SQLSTP or

I have a 2 nodes active/passive SQL Server 2000 cluster running on a Windows
2003 server cluster.
When I shutdown the active node and then the failover is starting to work.
I can see all of the SQL Server services has failovered to passive node in

Can you Implement Log Shipping between geographically dispersed clusters.
The main aim is to provide DR for 2 clusters to a single cluster located in
a seperate Datacenter.
Any input will be appreciated.

Does any one have experiences with Mixed mode cluster?
I am trying to add  a  windows 2003 node as primary node to an existing
window 2000 active passive cluster.
Here is what i did: