I am in the planning process of upgrading the hardware on
our cluster. I need info/advice/suggestions on how to go
about this.
I am running an active/active cluster on 2 ML370 servers.
They are running Windows 2000 Advanced Server/SP2, MSSQL
2000 Enterprise/SP2.
I want to know if all I have to do is Failover all
resources from Server2 to Server1, then evict Server2?
Then do all I have to do is run the cluster install? I am
not sure what needs to be done with the SQL instance from
Server2? Do I uninstall it or what? I hope this is clear

You will have to ininstall SQL from the node. Treat it as a complete
hardware failure and BOL has step by step instructions.

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Hi -
Once you evict server 2, uninstalling or keeping the sql instance
is up to you.
But once you join the server 2 back to the cluster, you need to run the
setup and add server 2 as the possible owner for your sql instance. BOL has
the detailed steps to be done to remove and add the node in a cluster.

Regards,
Chandra
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||I am running an active/active cluster on 2 ML370 servers.
||They are running Windows 2000 Advanced Server/SP2, MSSQL
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||I want to know if all I have to do is Failover all
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||Then do all I have to do is run the cluster install? I am
||not sure what needs to be done with the SQL instance from
||Server2? Do I uninstall it or what? I hope this is clear
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