I am trying to test the clustering on our two new servers, but we don't have
SQL 2005 std or enterprise CD yet. Can I use evaluation edition (downloaded
from MS website) to create a test cluster?

I am looking for some help with a SQL Upgrade that we are doing.  We have an
older server running SQL 2000.  We also have a MSCS cluster that we've built
which is running SQL 2005.  We want to get all the databases on the SQL 2005
cluster and retire the SQL 2000 server.  

Hi there and thanks in advance,
My ultimate goal is to get always-on redundancy for our ASP 2.0
session state service for our web farm. I'm exploring off-the-shelf
products like ScaleOut and Ncache, but I wanted to try the recommeded

How well does MS clustering meet the 99.999% availability?
What other technoologies/architectures that do a better job from this
stand-point?
Gigel

I have installed an SQL 2005 Cluster on a Windows 2003 Two Node
Active/Passive Cluster.Below is the brief of my Netowrk
1.I have two Active directory domain controllers running Windows 2003 R2
Standard edition with SP2.

Hi all.. hope someone can help me on this.. I'm a beginner and have
limited knowledge on clustering.
I managed to setup 2 set active/passive cluster with SQL clustering on
2 different site which is connected through lease line.

I had a hard time with my node replacement. And I am hoping to find out what
I did wrong and perhaps some answers to a few lingering questions, I want to
step through what I did
1. I was using a whole new name and IP address for the new node, so I place

We have two Microsoft Windows 2000/SQL 2000 clusters that need to move from
one SAN to another.  The old SAN is going away.
Does anyone know of a procedures or white papers on how to accomplish this.

I have a general Question,
I am going to evict a node from My SQL cluster and replace it, Do I need to
"evict" it from the SQL Cluster in any way, or can I just evict the node form
the Windows Cluster and remove SQL or remove SQL first and then evict node

        may be a simple question to some of you. I have an Active/Passive
Windows 2003 service pack 2 / SQL 2005 cluster configuration.
I was just wondering what is the best way of performing windows updates from
M/Soft.

I would like to add another volume to my two node sql 2005 cluster. From
what i have been reading i need to shut one of the cluster nodes, add
the drive to the cluster then bring the backup node back on line. Am i
missing anything???

I have setup a couple of SQL Server 2 node clusters in the past and was
always in a domain environment.  I now have to setup a 2 node cluster in a
none domain workgroup environment if anyone has any tips I would appreciate
the advice.

Windows 2003 N+1 cluster, SQL2005 enterprise + sp2
I have a N+1 cluster and installed default sql instance and one named
instance. SQL Browser service is running on the node which owns the named
instance; UDP port 1434 is opened on the firewall.

I have been looking for the last few hours for how to move a non-clustered
environment to a clustered environment without having to change the
connection strings of any of our applications.  I'm not finding it anywhere.
It's been a while since I did this, and I thought we could ...

I want to deploy an sql 2005 cluster on a Windows 2003 Active/Passive
Cluster.Are there any KB articles avalible that will guide in deploying sql
2005 Cluster.
Appreciate it.