May 22, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Here's my scenario:
2 Win2k8R2 Servers running SQL 2k8R2 Standard edition servers in a failover cluster with a single service (Default SQL instance).
I need to move this service to SQL 2k8R2 Enterprise, new servers.
I've built 2 new Win2k8R2 Servers and have licensing for SQL 2k8R2 Enterprise. Can I simply add these as nodes, fail the service over from one of the standard boxes to the new enterprise boxes, then remove the standard nodes? Or will the 2-node limitation on Standard stand in my way - in which case should I remove a standard node, add an enterprise node, fail over to it, remove the last standard node, and then add the other enterprise node?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
May 22, 2012 at 1:31 pm
chrisdicentes (5/22/2012)
Here's my scenario:2 Win2k8R2 Servers running SQL 2k8R2 Standard edition servers in a failover cluster with a single service (Default SQL instance).
I need to move this service to SQL 2008 Enterprise, new servers.
I've built 2 new Win2k8R2 Servers and have licensing for SQL 2k8R2 Enterprise. Can I simply add these as nodes, fail the service over from one of the standard boxes to the new enterprise boxes, then remove the standard nodes? Or will the 2-node limitation on Standard stand in my way - in which case should I remove a standard node, add an enterprise node, fail over to it, remove the last standard node, and then add the other enterprise node?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Would like to verify what you are doing. Based on the above, you are going from SQL Server 2008R2 SE to SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. If so, this is a move backwards.
May 22, 2012 at 2:25 pm
I corrected the typo above, it is from 2k8R2 SE to 2k8R2 EE.
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