"Tom Moreau" wrote:

> You have to run the setup for each virtual server to tell the cluster to use
> only the remaining nodes. The SQL Servers will not be downgraded to RTM.
> Even though you are running "setup", it's not installing anything. It's
> just configuring.
>
> Setup can also be used if not evicting a node from the cluster. You could
> tell it to use only certain nodes within the cluster for a given instance.
>
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> Tom
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> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS
> SQL Server MVP
> Toronto, ON Canada
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>
> "dp" <dp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EE2926D7-7FA2-4CB7-B7C0-D2A59FFC4A58@microsoft.com...
> I have a three node cluster with three virtual sql server 2005 installed.
> Now
> I want to take one node out of cluster to make a two node cluster. According
> to the post of Daniel ("evicting a node") and other reading, we have to run
> the setup again. My question are:
> 1. do I have to run the setup on all of thre virtual sql servers or just
> one?
> 2. after run the setup, will the sql server be changed to RTM? my server
> have the sp2 right now.
> 3. If we can just evicting a node from cluster group without any database
> issue, why do we need to run the setup again.
> Daniel, can you post what you did in more detail for what you did.
> thanks for anyone who cna help.
> Regards,
> Zack.
>