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Side by side 2005 installation on a 2000 Cluster

  • December 11, 2006 at 12:48 pm

    #193438

    I will be installing SQL 2005 on an already existing SQL 2000 cluster.   I know I will need to install another virtual server name in its own cluster resource group but will I need to give the new virtual name an instance name besides default?  Will it even let me choose default?   I don’t care either way I just want to know what is the recommended.   

  • December 12, 2006 at 7:38 pm

    #677686

    I have not tried this. However, in a SQL Server 2000 cluster, when you go to install another instance, it requires a new virtual name. If there is already a default instance, you must install a named instance (only one instance can listen on 1433 if the instances end up on the same physical node). I assume that hasn't changed for SQL Server 2005. You might try and send a private message to Brian Knight... he's a SQL Server MVP and knows far more about SQL Server clustering than I do.

     

    K. Brian Kelley
    @kbriankelley

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