Setup

• ITTECH

  Newbie

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  December 5, 2006 at 6:03 pm

  #115385

  We are on SQL Server 2000 A/A cluster and are moving to SQL Server 2005 cluster.

  Following are the list of things before proceeding, please let me know if it needs any corrections and add-ons:

  (side-by-side) Planning for new installation of SQL Server 2005 ( SQL2005INST1 and SQL2005INST2) on node1 and node2 and restoring the databases on SQL2005INST1 and SQL2005INST2 from respective 2000 instances.

  1) SQL2005INST1

  SQL Network Name

  SQL IP address

  2) SQL2005INST2

  SQL Network Name

  SQL IP address

  As 2000 is already existing on the cluster.Want some clarity on following questions.

  Can I keep the data files on the same disk as 2000 was using ?

  Do I need to have new disk for the Quoram drive?

  Under "Virtual Server Configuration" wizard during the setup under "Network to use"--- for "private cluster network" and "public cluster network" do that IP Address and network address and network subnet will be different from what we gave for SQL 2000.

  Thanks

• MohammedU

  SSCoach

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  December 8, 2006 at 10:26 pm

  #677112

  If your sql 2000 files are on the SAN, you can do that but you need to remove those drives from 2000 cluster...sql 2005 cluster...

  Before doing that make sure you have valid backups if anything goes wrong during this process you can restore...

  You can use the same disk for different cluster quorum...

   

  MohammedU
  Microsoft SQL Server MVP