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  • July 10, 2013 at 1:38 am

    #1631098

    You need to have an identitical OS as clustering changed quite a bit between Windows 2003 and 2008. You also cannot upgrade the existing cluster to 2008, it would need to be completely rebuilt.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935197

    In 2003 you needed Microsoft certified hardware but in 2008 it just needs to pass the cluster validation tests so hardware does not need to be identical.