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SQL 2012 and SQL 2008 R2 Instances on the same cluster

  • July 24, 2013 at 12:30 pm

    #276243

    We need to include both a SQL 2008 R2 and SQL 2012 instance on the same Windows 2008 R2 cluster. Has anyone done this before? Caveats? Worked like a charm/don't touch with a 10 foot pole?

    Thanks in advance for any input you can provide!

  • July 24, 2013 at 12:45 pm

    #1635479

    Have not done that myself, however I do run both on a single machine and have had zero issues. Off the top of my head I can't think of any issues that would come up. Just make sure you have your licensing correct, hate to get whacked on that..

    CEWII

  • July 24, 2013 at 2:15 pm

    #1635520

    I have a Windows 2012 cluster running a default instance of SQL 2012 and a named instance of SQL 2008R2 without issue. The named instance will eventually go away once vendors support SQL 2012.

  • July 24, 2013 at 6:05 pm

    #1635578

    Thanks for the input guys. Yeah we're moving this direction because some of our vendors aren't supporting SQL 2012 yet either.

  • July 25, 2013 at 6:22 am

    #1635679

    I think as long as the two instances have their own disk resources you will be okay.

    Joie Andrew
    "Since 1982"

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