"Peter Lindberg" <peter.lindbergTAKE@AWAYmartinsson.se> wrote in message
news:415d70eb.31078308@msnews.microsoft.com...
> John,
> thanks for the reply. My intention is to get all 4 nodes equal setup.
> We want to be able to run new databases where it's best suitet and
> don't depend on differenses between instances. That's way I want to do
> this. I have to set up my test environment so I can test it before I
> go in the production.
>
> Have you done this in a cluster?
>
> /Peter
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:19:01 -0700, "John Kane" <jt-kane@comcast.net>
> wrotc:
>
> >Peter,
> >Yes, KB article 812666 "How to recover a failed full-text search resource
on
> >a clustered instance of SQL Server 2000" at
> >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=812666 is complex, but
since
> >you don't use the MSSearch (Fulltext ) service, and have already removed
the
> >fulltext (Microsoft Search) service from the cluster resource, rebuilding
> >this service is not necessary/
> >
> >Note, you can also post FTS related questions to the newsgroup:
> >microsoft.public.sqlserver.fulltext
> >Regards,
> >John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Peter Lindberg" <peter.lindbergTAKE@AWAYmartinsson.se> wrote in message
> >news:415bfda4.4507871@msnews.microsoft.com...
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I have a problem with a 4-node cluster. It was a 2-node sql2k on w2k.
> >> We installed new hw with w2k3 and installed the old instances there
> >> (restore). After that we added 2 more w2k3 nodes and installed the
> >> original 2 instances on all 4 nodes. We also set up 2 new instances to
> >> be a total of 4.
> >>
> >> The problem is that when we put in the new hw (node 3 and 4) we saw
> >> that we lost the control of the fulltext resource on the first 2
> >> instances. It started failing and then failback, sometimes it started,
> >> sometimes not. This started before we actually joined node 3-4 to the
> >> clustrer. Since we don't use fulltext we took away the resource from
> >> the cluster on these 2 instances. On the new instances (3 and 4) there
> >> has newer been a problem. All nodes can run all 4 instances. There is
> >> no problem with any other resource.
> >>
> >> I have seen kb 812666 and I think that I should try rebuildning
> >> fulltext. I think it looks very complex, is there anyone that have
> >> done this?
> >>
> >> /Peter
> >
>

>You're welcome, Peter,
>Unfortunately, I do not have a clustered environment to test this KB
>article, as I have only one home server and a laptop... ;-(
>If you do have a test clustered environment, even one with just two nodes,
>I'd recommend that you test using that environment.
>
>Regards,
>John
>
>
>"Peter Lindberg" <peter.lindbergTAKE@AWAYmartinsson.se> wrote in message
>news:415d70eb.31078308@msnews.microsoft.com...
>> John,
>> thanks for the reply. My intention is to get all 4 nodes equal setup.
>> We want to be able to run new databases where it's best suitet and
>> don't depend on differenses between instances. That's way I want to do
>> this. I have to set up my test environment so I can test it before I
>> go in the production.
>>
>> Have you done this in a cluster?
>>
>> /Peter
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:19:01 -0700, "John Kane" <jt-kane@comcast.net>
>> wrotc:
>>
>> >Peter,
>> >Yes, KB article 812666 "How to recover a failed full-text search resource
>on
>> >a clustered instance of SQL Server 2000" at
>> >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=812666 is complex, but
>since
>> >you don't use the MSSearch (Fulltext ) service, and have already removed
>the
>> >fulltext (Microsoft Search) service from the cluster resource, rebuilding
>> >this service is not necessary/
>> >
>> >Note, you can also post FTS related questions to the newsgroup:
>> >microsoft.public.sqlserver.fulltext
>> >Regards,
>> >John
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >"Peter Lindberg" <peter.lindbergTAKE@AWAYmartinsson.se> wrote in message
>> >news:415bfda4.4507871@msnews.microsoft.com...
>> >> Hi!
>> >>
>> >> I have a problem with a 4-node cluster. It was a 2-node sql2k on w2k.
>> >> We installed new hw with w2k3 and installed the old instances there
>> >> (restore). After that we added 2 more w2k3 nodes and installed the
>> >> original 2 instances on all 4 nodes. We also set up 2 new instances to
>> >> be a total of 4.
>> >>
>> >> The problem is that when we put in the new hw (node 3 and 4) we saw
>> >> that we lost the control of the fulltext resource on the first 2
>> >> instances. It started failing and then failback, sometimes it started,
>> >> sometimes not. This started before we actually joined node 3-4 to the
>> >> clustrer. Since we don't use fulltext we took away the resource from
>> >> the cluster on these 2 instances. On the new instances (3 and 4) there
>> >> has newer been a problem. All nodes can run all 4 instances. There is
>> >> no problem with any other resource.
>> >>
>> >> I have seen kb 812666 and I think that I should try rebuildning
>> >> fulltext. I think it looks very complex, is there anyone that have
>> >> done this?
>> >>
>> >> /Peter
>> >
>>
>