"Freddy" <fredfreddy1892@NOSPAMhotmailPLEASE.com> wrote in message
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> OK, here is the scenario.
>
> We have bought some nice new servers to replace our 3 year old ones. Also,
> we are migrating to Win2K3. Managed to upgrade the current active/active
> cluster to Win2K3 and all is well. Following a Microsoft whitepaper on how
> to upgrade, it tells us that we need to evict a node by running SQL Server
> setup and entering the name of the virtual server.
>
> This is where we get the problem.
>
> We have two SQL servers in the cluster, they are named SQL_SERVER1 AND
> SQL_SERVER2\SQL_SERVER2. As you can see the second server is running as a
> named instance (to avoid cluster conflicts)
>
> When entering the virtual server name in SQL server setup it tells me that
> "The format of the virtual server name is invalid" After some hours of
> research, the only possible reason I can come up with for this is that the
> virtual server names have underscores on them.
>
> We get the same message when running SP3a. This only occurs on Win2K3 and
> not NT4.
>
> Has anybody come across this problem or has a solution?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Freddy
>
>

"Freddy" <fredfreddy1892@NOSPAMhotmailPLEASE.com> wrote in message
news:c8q1r6$mo6$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> OK, here is the scenario.
>
> We have bought some nice new servers to replace our 3 year old ones. Also,
> we are migrating to Win2K3. Managed to upgrade the current active/active
> cluster to Win2K3 and all is well. Following a Microsoft whitepaper on how
> to upgrade, it tells us that we need to evict a node by running SQL Server
> setup and entering the name of the virtual server.
>
> This is where we get the problem.
>
> We have two SQL servers in the cluster, they are named SQL_SERVER1 AND
> SQL_SERVER2\SQL_SERVER2. As you can see the second server is running as a
> named instance (to avoid cluster conflicts)
>
> When entering the virtual server name in SQL server setup it tells me that
> "The format of the virtual server name is invalid" After some hours of
> research, the only possible reason I can come up with for this is that the
> virtual server names have underscores on them.
>
> We get the same message when running SP3a. This only occurs on Win2K3 and
> not NT4.
>
> Has anybody come across this problem or has a solution?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Freddy
>
>

"Freddy" <fredfreddy1892@NOSPAMhotmailPLEASE.com> wrote in message
news:c8q1r6$mo6$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> OK, here is the scenario.
>
> We have bought some nice new servers to replace our 3 year old ones. Also,
> we are migrating to Win2K3. Managed to upgrade the current active/active
> cluster to Win2K3 and all is well. Following a Microsoft whitepaper on how
> to upgrade, it tells us that we need to evict a node by running SQL Server
> setup and entering the name of the virtual server.
>
> This is where we get the problem.
>
> We have two SQL servers in the cluster, they are named SQL_SERVER1 AND
> SQL_SERVER2\SQL_SERVER2. As you can see the second server is running as a
> named instance (to avoid cluster conflicts)
>
> When entering the virtual server name in SQL server setup it tells me that
> "The format of the virtual server name is invalid" After some hours of
> research, the only possible reason I can come up with for this is that the
> virtual server names have underscores on them.
>
> We get the same message when running SP3a. This only occurs on Win2K3 and
> not NT4.
>
> Has anybody come across this problem or has a solution?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Freddy
>
>

"Freddy" <fredfreddy1892@NOSPAMhotmailPLEASE.com> wrote in message
news:c8q1r6$mo6$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> OK, here is the scenario.
>
> We have bought some nice new servers to replace our 3 year old ones. Also,
> we are migrating to Win2K3. Managed to upgrade the current active/active
> cluster to Win2K3 and all is well. Following a Microsoft whitepaper on how
> to upgrade, it tells us that we need to evict a node by running SQL Server
> setup and entering the name of the virtual server.
>
> This is where we get the problem.
>
> We have two SQL servers in the cluster, they are named SQL_SERVER1 AND
> SQL_SERVER2\SQL_SERVER2. As you can see the second server is running as a
> named instance (to avoid cluster conflicts)
>
> When entering the virtual server name in SQL server setup it tells me that
> "The format of the virtual server name is invalid" After some hours of
> research, the only possible reason I can come up with for this is that the
> virtual server names have underscores on them.
>
> We get the same message when running SP3a. This only occurs on Win2K3 and
> not NT4.
>
> Has anybody come across this problem or has a solution?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Freddy
>
>