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Replacing Shared Storage on a two node cluster
Posted by Asim Mian at 4/30/2004 10:01:54 AM
I have a two node SQL Server 2000 cluster running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. It's an Active/Passive configuration. Now we will be replacing the shared storage system from a Dell PowerVault 220 to EMC Clarion. Is there anyway to accomplish this without rebuilding the whole cluster (We...more >>


SQL multi instance cluster questions
Posted by Hassan at 4/30/2004 9:25:14 AM
I have a couple of questions now that I installed a multi instance SQL 2K failover cluster on Win2003 . In my case 2 instances 1) How does one apply SQL service packs or Windows service packs/security patches to the 2 instances ? 2) If i need to restart the SQL instances, how do i do it ? I ...more >>

Outlook Client on SQL Cluster
Posted by Adam Maltby at 4/30/2004 9:13:28 AM
Hi, We currently have a two node sql cluster running SQL Mail. At present we have to manually start up outlook so the mail client works. I have been looking at the resource options and wondered if it was = possible to setup outlook client as a resource and if so, what reg keys = would I nee...more >>

Linked Servers and Cluster
Posted by anonymous at 4/30/2004 6:52:51 AM
I am having an issue using linked servers on active/active cluster. I have two instances, and when both instances are on the same machine, things work as expected. When I move one of the instances to the other machine, it does not. It appears to work correctly when I link the named instanc...more >>

Clustered Sql Server(Again)
Posted by aculfa at 4/29/2004 4:20:36 PM
I should take offline backup at midnight after stopping our sql server 2000. But it's prohibited to stop by writing a task like "net stop MSSQLSERVER" (written in MSDN site), also the passive server brings sql server online and cancels offline backup. How can I stop my clustered Sql Server a...more >>

MSDTC and multi instance cluster
Posted by Hassan at 4/29/2004 9:31:57 AM
From BOL "When MS DTC is running in clustered mode, only one node in the cluster runs the MS DTC transaction manager at a time." So if i have setup a multi instance cluster with each instance on each of the 2 nodes in the cluster , how does MSDTC work for both these instances ? Using Win200...more >>

Old SQL Cluster to Join a New Domain?
Posted by Bonehead at 4/29/2004 9:00:23 AM
Hi. In general terms, what would be the steps to have my SQL2000 (on W2K OS) 2 node-clusters join a new domain? They are member servers authenticating with a W2K DC on their subnet, but we would like to install W2003 on that DC (bare-metal NO upgrade, due to past history of AD replication...more >>

Restore fails - LOADING state
Posted by Jim Trowbridge at 4/28/2004 12:46:10 PM
We run a two node cluster, with all resources currently on one node. The server is working no problems - but.. We try to restore a backup and it completes, but leaves the database in LOADING status, without doing anything We have had this failure when the cluster is not all on one node, we have t...more >>



Regarding Active-Active Cluster
Posted by Harsha at 4/28/2004 11:51:33 AM
Is their any document avaiable on Active-Active SQL cluster on microsoft site. If yes can some one please send the link...more >>

Adding Spindals on Cluster to SAN
Posted by Dave at 4/28/2004 11:41:04 AM
How much work is it to add spindals to a drive on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server clustered on a SAN? Thank You, Dave...more >>

Backup Distribution Database
Posted by Mike at 4/28/2004 11:36:30 AM
Should a distribution be backup? Thank You, Mike...more >>

how many clusters can i set up ?
Posted by Hassan at 4/28/2004 9:28:25 AM
A slight confusion. I have created a windows cluster with 2 nodes and a single instance of SQL 2K cluster Is it possible to create many windows clusters? I was looking at the Cluster Admin and there is an option to create a new cluster ... Why would one want to do that especially with only 2 n...more >>

Service
Posted by Bob at 4/28/2004 7:10:34 AM
Folks, My question is what should the SQL service and SQL agent service be set at. Should it be set to start automatically or manually? Thanks, B ...more >>

SQL 2005 (Yukon) question
Posted by KA Kueh at 4/27/2004 9:46:33 PM
Dear all, Does anyone know if the next version of SQL will support load-balancing as well as fail-over clustering? Thanks. Regards, Kueh. ...more >>

Multi Instance Cluster Question
Posted by Ronald at 4/27/2004 3:42:09 PM
I decided to try and setup a multi instance cluster on my own and seem to be fairly successful . Its SQL 2000 EE on Windows Server 2003 EE Just had 2 questions. When i installed the second instance, it asked me for a virtual name.. so i gave it one ..in my case SQL2.. and then was asked f...more >>

Need Help for installing and configure SQL cluster
Posted by Sameer Prabhune at 4/27/2004 1:51:02 AM
I am trying to install an Active/passive cluster of SQL 2000 on a Win2003 machine. Can any one give me details stapes how to configure it same and what are the procedure I have to follow I can firm windows cluster properly but do I have to install SQL server on all cluster nodes or no need for sam...more >>

Exchange cluster
Posted by IFreyre at 4/26/2004 7:35:19 PM
Dont know clusters, just starting to look into them. I do, however, have needs for fault tolarance. Starting with our email server. Sounds to me that Clustering is a bit over kill for an Exchange server or 12gig database to be useing as a fail over system. I'm i correct in making this assump...more >>

Active/Active Cluster
Posted by BeerBoy at 4/26/2004 9:46:04 AM
I am trying to install an Active/Active cluster of SQL2000 on a Win2003 machine. I installed the default instance and a named instance. When both instances are on the same machine, they come up correctly. However, if I fail the named instance over to the other node, it will not come up. If I then f...more >>

Unable to view drives
Posted by Theo Jones at 4/26/2004 9:34:31 AM
We are working with a Windows Server 2003/SQL 2000 cluster. We have split our SAN volumes into three separate drives. From Enterprise Manager, we are only able to view one drive, which is the SAN drive the SQL system data was installed. We tried going through creating a new database, ba...more >>

Scenario
Posted by Johan at 4/23/2004 7:02:39 PM
Consider the following scenario: I got 2 webservers (2003) using NLB. I want some kind of common data store (SQL Server). I need this data store to be fault tolerant. I don't have any more machines. I don't have an enterprise licence for windows. How do I solve this??? ...more >>

Unistall/Reinstall of Cluster Services
Posted by John Hubbard at 4/23/2004 1:56:41 PM
I have a need to unistall cluster services. This is on a Win2ksp4 server with Sqlserver2ksp3. Currently only one side of the cluster is setup. No failover server is configured at this point. I am testing on a sandbox server. After having all the software installed and working, I uninstalled clu...more >>

Failover Issue
Posted by Dylin Mikals at 4/23/2004 9:42:57 AM
I am setting up an Active/Active cluster with one instance of SQL in each node. When I am failing over from one node to the other, the SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, and SQL Server Fulltext do not come online. The state is listed as Online Pending. The physical disks, SQL IP Address an...more >>

Active/Active ClusterInstall
Posted by John Wang at 4/23/2004 9:36:27 AM
How do you install SQL server in Active/Active cluster? We want have an instance of SQL running on each of two nodes. What different when installing it like this versus Active/Passive? Thank....more >>

Cluster with 1 server ok second not
Posted by Colemont Bert at 4/22/2004 11:28:07 AM
Hi all, The problem that we have: We have a SQL cluster which contains 2 windows Adv servers, server X and Y Y is the primary node, and on that node is a virtual SQL installed, X is the secondary node, but it needs to be reïnstalled, as there is a db running on the cluster, I wonder if it w...more >>

act/pass cluster upg from geerhead...
Posted by wadeing in vain at 4/22/2004 10:02:54 AM
following up on the geerhead message: first, uncluster the SQL then reboot node1 second, upg the sql 7 to sql 2000 third, upg the sql 2k to sql 2000 cluster instance... OK...are there any upgrades to node2? Or will thw sql 2k cluster instance take care of that? ...more >>

Offline Backup
Posted by aculfa at 4/21/2004 4:40:59 PM
Sorry, this on may be a very easy question for this group but I've to find the right answer until weekend.. : )) I should take offline backup at midnight after stopping sql server 2000. But it's prohibited to stop by writing a task like "net stop MSSQLSERVER" How can I stop my clustered Sq...more >>

SQL 2000 database disappear
Posted by Nick White at 4/21/2004 7:48:02 AM
Hi SQL folks, We had a database just disappear. It shows up in Enterprise Manager, but the MDB and LDB files are just gone. All the other databases are there, and working OK also. Could something like disk corruption cause this? No one has logged into the server for a long time, so I know ...more >>

logshipping question
Posted by biju george at 4/21/2004 5:15:04 AM
Hi Guys, i am planning to implement logshipping in sql 2000 which is already a pulisher for transactional replication. i am planning to take transaction log backup in the interval of 1(one) minute. if network connection broken will it affect restoring at desination server? can i make the...more >>

Moving SQL-cluster to a new domain.
Posted by Johnny Lundgren at 4/21/2004 12:16:03 AM
Hello Articleno: 269196 and 319016 are describing how to move cluster servers to a new domain and changing domain for a SQL2000 failover cluster My question is concerning article 319016 There is a description on how to run the SQL2000 Setup program, altering in registry etc But, should I do t...more >>

Failed installation to cluster
Posted by Simon Call at 4/19/2004 3:17:27 PM
I have a 2 node cluster on which I am trying to install a virtual SQL Server. I am able to complete the setup process, but the installation fails after checking the cluster resources. In the application log I see that the ports have automatically been disabled (as I'm installing SQL from a...more >>

Mount Points
Posted by NYCTECHGIRL at 4/19/2004 2:26:06 PM
I've read in clustering articles that mount points are not supported. I've also read that they are. Which is it Has anyone implemented them in a SQL MSCS cluster Thanks...more >>

Cluster SQL 7.0 in W2KAdv environment
Posted by rene.fontan NO[at]SPAM winterthur.es at 4/19/2004 2:24:04 AM
Hi! This is the scenario: * Windows 2000 Advanced Server clustered with 2 nodes After the installation of SQLServer in the first node, does not appear the 'SQL Server Failover Cluster' or 'Failover Cluster Wizard' in the program files menu, and the option 'MSDTC Administrative Control' is...more >>

Confused...SA Account
Posted by Marc at 4/17/2004 11:51:30 AM
Hi I have a two node cluster with SQL2000 SP3. When the node1 fails over to node2, the SQL Server Agent fails. The log file says "Login Failed for user 'sa'" I don't understand how the SA account can fail on node2 and not on node1. Can anyone shed some light on this and possibly how to resolve...more >>

replacing node in a 2 node SQL clustered environment
Posted by Michael Trantow at 4/17/2004 10:01:05 AM
Do any guidelines exist? Situation: Active passive 2 node cluster using SAN drive. For starters I'm thinking: 1. back up all SQL databases located on shared SAN drive. 2. uninstall clustered sql. 3. uninstall clustering 4. re-install clustering with node 1, new node 2 5. re-install cluste...more >>

MSDN
Posted by J O Holloway at 4/15/2004 3:08:58 PM
Does the MSDN subscription allow me to set up an active/passive cluster for test/dev ? TIA ...more >>

Multiple-Instance Cluster
Posted by Lucian at 4/15/2004 1:40:02 PM
Situation: Two nodes, two nodes are active, two virtual servers, two separate applications. One active and one wait on each. Active on each fails over to wait on each other server so that I should only lose one application at a time. Question: Two SQL instances on each node/virtual serve...more >>

How do I register or access SQL Server in a Clustered environment?
Posted by Ron Michaels at 4/15/2004 10:06:12 AM
I have been working as SQL server DBA on standalone servers for about 3 years. I have been using SQL Server 2K Personal Ed. on my pc to do most development and to register standalone test servers. I have never worked in a Clustered environment. I have recently been put in a SQL Server 2K ...more >>

NAS or direct attached storage
Posted by Ken Shaw at 4/14/2004 6:13:04 PM
Am I right in saying that you can't implement a failover SQL Server 2000 cluster using NAS? Ie - you have to be using direct attached storage (like a big SCSI array) correct? Cheers, Ken ...more >>

active/passive cluster upg
Posted by geerhead at 4/14/2004 10:20:40 AM
I have: -nt 4 enterprise w/ sp6a -MSCS Active/Passive -sql 7.x enterprise w/ sp3 I want to upg the SQL 7 to SQL 2000. Do I: -Upgrade server 1 to sql 2000, then move the group to server 2 and upg it? thank you...more >>

'Virtual Server' option not available when installing SQL2000 on Win2003
Posted by cterrell NO[at]SPAM earthling.net at 4/14/2004 7:46:45 AM
I have a 2-node cluster working properly and have setup a pipe name alias for the virtual server instance (as per KB article Q815431). When I start the install of SQL 2000, the second screen that allows you to choose Local, Remote or Virtual Server has the Virtual Server option greyed out. Am I ...more >>

Assertion error
Posted by MacManaman at 4/14/2004 1:01:04 AM
Can anyone provide help regarding recbase.cpp , record.inl assertion error New cluster system, W2K3 Datacenter, SQL2000+SP3a, IBM x445 Two-way SMP (16CPU,64GB), EMC Symmetrix DMX800 Two instances of SQL Server... Keep getting assertion error on named instance wich uses MSDTC(msdtc working correct...more >>

Cannot Connect using IP to Clustered Named Instance
Posted by MCDBA Wannabe at 4/13/2004 3:34:54 PM
I am having trouble connecting when using the IP address to a named instanced using dynamic port assignments and hosted on a 2K3 cluster (even when at the console on the node hosting the SQL instance). I receive "SQL Server does not exist or access denied". There are no entries created in the ...more >>

clustering error
Posted by Man at 4/13/2004 12:57:23 PM
i got active\active clustering environment when i went to clustering administrator i see in cluster groups the 2 nodes are having red x mark what does it mean as all the resources[disk] in two nodes are online while one resource[mssq] in each node is failed in 1node and partially f...more >>

Distributed databases in a cluster
Posted by AA at 4/13/2004 12:20:14 PM
Hello gurus! I know that SQL 2000 and very probably Yukon SQL do not support a shared disk cluster. So, in the shared nothing schema is possible to (in a Active/Active): having one SQL 2000 instance running in the Active1 Server with on Database (like pubs) and in the Active2 Server another...more >>

SQL Server Multiple-Instance Cluster
Posted by Earl Spooner at 4/13/2004 10:12:40 AM
I am planning on a two node cluster with multiple instances. I will have two databases and two separate applications will be going against them. I want 'APP 1' to go against 'DB 1' on 'NODE 1' and failover to 'NODE 2'. I want 'APP 2' to go against 'DB 2' on 'NODE 2' and failover to 'NOD...more >>

clustering
Posted by Man at 4/13/2004 6:41:50 AM
in clustering groups i got two nodes node 1 is howing failed and node2 is showing partially online what does it mean but resources shows online...more >>

sql server license for active passive mode
Posted by Raj at 4/13/2004 6:39:28 AM
Hi, if I have a cluster of servers ( 2 to be exact), do I need one copy of sql server or one for each server ? Thanks...more >>

(Cluster) Memory settings
Posted by AA at 4/12/2004 4:36:43 PM
Hello, I am purchasing a HP DL-380 (Cluster) I am planing to install Windows 2003 and SQL 2000 Both machines has two processors and 4 GB o Physical Memory (RAM), but I want to put 6 GB in the Active Machine and 2 GB in the Passive Machine. So, That is possible? 1) Is possible to have dif...more >>

(Cluster) Memory settings
Posted by AA at 4/12/2004 4:36:27 PM
Hello, I am purchasing a HP DL-380 (Cluster) I am planing to install Windows 2003 and SQL 2000 Both machines has two processors and 4 GB o Physical Memory (RAM), but I want to put 6 GB in the Active Machine and 2 GB in the Passive Machine. So, That is possible? 1) Is possible to have dif...more >>

Memory setting on a Cluster
Posted by AA at 4/12/2004 4:29:16 PM
Hello, I am purchasing a HP DL-380 (Cluster) I am planing to install Windows 2003 and SQL 2000 Both machine has 4 GB o Physical Memory (RAM), but I want to put 6 GB in the Active Machine and 2 GB in the Passive Machine. So, That is possible? 1) Is possible to have differentes memory confi...more >>


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