Building an Active/Active/Passive SQL 2000 cluster on top of a 3 node 2003
server cluster.  As I go to install I end up getting a "An error occured
while creating virtual server resources for clustering.  The system cannot
find the file specified."

I'm looking for a best practices page that may help us in configuring our SAN
to SQL's best interest.  Is there anything?

I'm looking for some "best practices" help from the SAN gurus out there.
We're looking to move some of our databases to an EMC SAN. Currently we run
full backups every night and tran logs every 15 minutes, which are then used
by logshipping to restore to warm standby servers.

I want backup my SQL Server Cluster (two nodes) and to restore it on other
two nodes on another site.
I need to know that procedure to test my DRP. I know that the best would to
have a geocluster but for now (budget limitations) I just want to be able to

I have problems with sending mails within clustered MS SQL Server 2000.
I configured mail profiles on both nodes (with the same name) - I can send
mail within MS Outlook (which is a default mail client).
There is no profile on drop down list in SQL Mail section (server

I have a SQL Server 2000 64 bits running on an two node cluster (NODE1 and
NODE2) with two SQL Server instances (SQL1 and SQL1\2).
Instance SQL1 is running on NODE1 and instance SQL1\2 is running on NODE2.
MSDTC is configured on a exclusive group and it is running on NODE1.

In a multi-instance cluster, how can you match a named sql server instance
with an instance of sqlservr.exe? When setting up counter collection in
perfmon, I choose the "process" performance object, then the "% processor
time" counter". In list of instances, I can see sqlservr#1, ...

 I have been setting up a WIN2K3 Cluster here today and having some
problems.  I can get SQL Installed ok and everything works fine until I set
my Application Servers to point at the new SQL Server, at which point my
Component Services Components start getting MSDTC errors - ...

I've build a SQL 2000 SP3a cluster on top of an 8 node Windows 2003 cluster.  
We've decided to split the cluster up into 2 individual clusters and as such
I'm attempting to remove some of the cluster nodes from the Virtual Server
Definiton (as per the "Adding or Removing a ...

We have 2 cluster servers and each server has 3 instances (under WINDOWS
2003), all these is under a domain
IDBPA\IDBPINSTA1        
IDBPA\IDBPINSTA2

How is best performance and support.?

First please excuse my ignorance.  I am a consultant and generally work with
small business servers and I have no experience with clustering.
   I have a nonprofit client that has a need for a small database (500mb or
so) and wants to use 2 Dell workstations as the servers.  I ...

First excuse me for my english.
J have a cluster windows 2003 EE , and j have installed an instance non
virtual  in the first node, with datafile in shared disk.
Well, when j go for upgrade this instance in cluster instance whit sql

I have 2 Windows 2003 servers running SQL2000.  They each have separate
databases.  I am in the process of clustering these 2 machines together.  I
have purchased a shared external SCSI PowerVault appliance to put the quorom
and the shared databases on.  I want to create a ...

I am running a 3active/1passive node cluster on W2K3 and SQL 2k.  The passive
node has the ability to have any of the active nodes to failover to it.  In
addition to it being the failover node it also has 3 instances that match the
active nodes.