can you provide more detail about your I\O subsystem?

Losing the principal in either async mode or sync mode with no witness requires you to use the above...

This thread is 5yrs old! 😉

My guide at the following links cover a 2 node cluster, but its still relevant for a 3node cluster

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Sapen (8/5/2013)

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Hello All,

I have a question on SQL Server 2008 R2 Std Edition clustering. I am trying to setup clustering for our SQL Server staging environment. We have a lot...

Close any connections to the database and then connect and re run the query

matt.gyton (8/6/2013)

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Thanks all for the responses...

There is a chance the new servers will have...

Will the new hardware use the same version of windows as the existing cluster nodes?

Set the database compatibility level back to 90

database mirroring would be the best solution for you here. Replication is more associated with replicating parts of a database rather than the whole database

ananda.murugesan (7/30/2013)

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Thank you for valuable reply..

In this situation, what will happend Logshipping in standby database..

still continuous apply the log or wait that query execution completion then next log will be...

Unless the disks have been presented as Raw Device Mappings to the VM then no, the VMWare kernel would be controlling access to the flat file virtual disks.

PearlJammer1 (7/31/2013)

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So are you saying there is no way to check what raid levels i have configured ? Do i just have to take our suppliers word that we have...

The VMWare virtual disks will sit on a VMWare ESX datastore, this itself may have a RAID array underneath it, but it wont mean a blind thing to you or...

Yes, my bad you are quite right shrink is available.

Even so, I'm you can manage to scrape up the extra 80GB or so required to pre create the new...