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Adam Bean

Posted Wednesday, June 09, 2010 8:44 AM

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Hey all,

Has anyone installed R2 on a cluster already running 2005,2008? Unfortunately I don't have a test environment and I'm a little weary introducing R2 into an existing Windows 2008 cluster running 2005 and 2008 based on issues I experienced with 2008. Was hoping to hear from someone that has all three successfully running in a single cluster.

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Adam Bean

Posted Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:55 AM

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I am hoping to build a TEST environment in the near future to give this a shot, but just curious to as if anyone has this in play and what your experiences were.

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Mike.Dougherty

Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:53 PM

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Were you ever able to get a test environment up and running with multiple versions? I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 2-node cluster built and running with 3 instances. I need to migrate a 2005 instance to this 2008R2 cluster and I am wondering if installing 2005 into a cluster that is already running 3 instances of 2008R2 is going to be an issue. Let me know?

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Adam Bean

Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:54 PM

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Mike.Dougherty (10/30/2012)

Oh yeah and with 2012 now as well. Went relatively smooth; however I went in order of installs 2005 -> 2008 -> 2008 R2 -> 2012. Going back and adding 2005 may cause some issues with native client, but not sure what else. You can always reinstall the latest and greatest native client later on.

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Mike.Dougherty

Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:57 PM

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Minus what? Also did you install 2005, then 2008, then 2008R2, then 2012? Like I said I have an existing cluster running 3 instances with SQL 2008R2 loaded and I need to install a 4th instance with 2005. So I am going from newer version to older rather than starting with older and installing newer. Make sense?

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Mike.Dougherty

Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:58 PM

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Okay. Sorry bad refresh I guess. I didn't see the rest of your message. Thanks

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