How many instances could have in an active/passive and an active/active
cluster box ?
Thanks,

I am preparing for the installation of SQL Server 2005 Standard on a
two-node cluster.  The SQL Server books Online" topic named "Before
Installing Failover Clustering" indicates that you must install MSDTC if you
are installing the Database Engine and SSIS, Notification Services ...

We have a fail-over cluster with a SQL Server 2000 instance installed on it.
There are 6GB memory available on the cluster, and we have the /PAE switch
turned on. I want to enable AWE in SQL Server and allocate 3-4GB to SQL
server. but from what I read about turn on AWE, some ...

What is the Cluster setting if the present node has 3 failures (default) to
stay on the same server node?  
What is the Cluster setting if the present node has 3 failures (default) to
move to another server node?  

I need a sql failover cluster box with 10 instances, how big the quorum
drive size that I need --estimate
Thanks

Is it a good ideas for sql server 2k to put 15-20 databases in one cluster
box. Create like 10 instances.
If something wrong we could just restrat the service for that instance.....
othewr dbs won't be affected.

Hi support,
The cluster need around 10 mins to complete failover process. i would like
to know it is normal case or whether healthy ? if not healthy, how to check
and resolve it ? pls advise. The system configure:

Hi Again, I am trying to install sql 2005 on my cluster but the setup failed
to start on the remote machine. The cluster is working fine and all nodes and
shared disks seem to be OK. Any idea what is going on?
Here is the error message: "Setup failed to start on the remote machine ...

We would like to do MSS 2005 cluster failover testing with out Application,
however we do not have a SAN (or shared disk storage). Oracle provide the
ablity to create a 10G cluster using 2 Virtual Machines, so we were wondering
if Micrsoosft provides a a similiar solution for MSS ...

Hello group,
I have been testing out SQL 2005 clusters. I noticed that putting the
"Distributed Transaction Coordinator" resource (i.e., MSDTC) in either
its own cluster resource group or in the default Cluster Group with

Hello group,
I am building a SQL 2005 Standard failover cluster on Windows 2003
Enterprise. Everything looks alright; dual HBAs, dual NICs, MSDTC as
part of the Cluster Group, all hotfixes applied. The server setup

I've setup a Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition cluster of 2 nodes, with sql2000
cluster and analysis services cluster.
I must install sql 2005 and analysis services 2005 without upgrade 2000
instances.

I just setup my first 2 node Active/Active SQL Cluster and from what I can
tell you can have only one (1) default instance in an Active/Active cluster.
The other instance has to be a named instance. Is this correct, or am I crazy?
If so, I don't undertand why this limitation. ...

Customer is running a SQL 2000 system single instance, this SQL 2000 is
installed on a cluster of 2 nodes but they are not clustering the SQL
instance, easier even they are running SQL 2000 on a cluster, SQL is not
clustered.

Hi (I send one before but looklike it did not pass through)
 I have questions as below.
1) On production server win 2003 64 bits, I can not see Cluster by
ClusterAdmin, Quarum is the folder in C:\Drive, SAN is only shared drive, SQL