"Jason Robertson" <jason6869@msn.com> wrote in message
news:Dqadney4k-V_6ubcRVn-sg@comcast.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have two identical servers. I want to put Win 2003 Enterprise and SQL
> Server Enterprise on both of them.
> The data will be written to and read from the database.
> Is it possible to build a cluster with two independent sets of hard drives

> on each server (Server1 with his own hard drives in Raid1, and Server2
with
> its own hard drives in Raid1)? As I mentioned the data will be written
into
> the database continuously. I wanted to check that with you guys because I
> have looked into some books about clustering and the only configuration
> picures I saw were with a shared array of hard drives between cluster
nodes.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
>

"Mike Epprecht (SQL MVP)" wrote:

> Hi
>
> There was a thread about MNS 13 July 2004 "sqlserver clustering 2 node
> cluster without shared storage" in this NG.
>
> SQL Server does not support MNS.
>
> Regards
> Mike
>
> "Sinisa Perovic" wrote:
>
> > Yes it is possible using 'Majority Node Set' feature of Windows 2003....but
> > with some constraints.
> > see
> > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/SAG_MSCS2planning_32.asp
> >
> > Rgds
> > Sinisa
> >
> > "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "Jason Robertson" <jason6869@msn.com> wrote in message
> > > news:Dqadney4k-V_6ubcRVn-sg@comcast.com...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have two identical servers. I want to put Win 2003 Enterprise and SQL
> > > > Server Enterprise on both of them.
> > > > The data will be written to and read from the database.
> > > > Is it possible to build a cluster with two independent sets of hard drives
> > >
> > > No.
> > >
> > >
> > > > on each server (Server1 with his own hard drives in Raid1, and Server2
> > > with
> > > > its own hard drives in Raid1)? As I mentioned the data will be written
> > > into
> > > > the database continuously. I wanted to check that with you guys because I
> > > > have looked into some books about clustering and the only configuration
> > > > picures I saw were with a shared array of hard drives between cluster
> > > nodes.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your help.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >