Installing A Failover Cluster

I have two matched servers, one will be Active and one will be Passive.
The servers have Windows 2000 Advanced Server and I have SQL Server 2000
Enterprise Edition.
My question is, do I also need a box called a Shared Disk Array, or can I
use another server I currently have that has lots of disk space on it?
Correction: I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server
"Vincel2k2" wrote:

> I have two matched servers, one will be Active and one will be Passive.
> The servers have Windows 2000 Advanced Server and I have SQL Server 2000
> Enterprise Edition.
> My question is, do I also need a box called a Shared Disk Array, or can I
> use another server I currently have that has lots of disk space on it?
>
|||You will indeed need shared storage.
Cheers,
Rod
MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
"Vincel2k2" <Vincel2k2@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Correction: I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server
> "Vincel2k2" wrote:
|||Hi
You need to get your self a Storage Area Network (SAN) to store your data
on.
For clustering, make sure that your hardware is on the Windows Hardware
Compatibility List (HCL)
Read the documentation on
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...g/default.mspx
to get an understanding.
Regards
Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Zurich, Switzerland
IM: mike@.epprecht.net
MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
"Vincel2k2" <Vincel2k2@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Correction: I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server
> "Vincel2k2" wrote:
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|||I also have two matched servers with Win2003EntSrv that I would like to
install an active/passive failover cluster of Yukon on. Since this is a lab
environment and I don't have the $$ for a SAN, will it work with a Network
Storage HD? I realize the performance won't be great, but I'm looking for
the experience in how to build/configure the environment.
Any tips?
An alternative question for the lab environment is ... how would you do this
in two VPC? Or would you steer clear?
Thanks
Al
"Mike Epprecht (SQL MVP)" wrote:

> Hi
> You need to get your self a Storage Area Network (SAN) to store your data
> on.
> For clustering, make sure that your hardware is on the Windows Hardware
> Compatibility List (HCL)
> Read the documentation on
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...g/default.mspx
> to get an understanding.
> Regards
> --
> Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
> Zurich, Switzerland
> IM: mike@.epprecht.net
> MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
> Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
> "Vincel2k2" <Vincel2k2@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FF446D59-A73C-43EA-9EC2-4B9D03CFD51B@.microsoft.com...
> I
>
>
|||Virtual Server 2005 will work nicely for this test. See
http://www.hands-on-labs.com/microsoft.asp?ID=4477 for the steps
Cheers,
Rod
MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
"al_stark_born" <al_stark_born@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I also have two matched servers with Win2003EntSrv that I would like to
> install an active/passive failover cluster of Yukon on. Since this is a
> lab
> environment and I don't have the $$ for a SAN, will it work with a Network
> Storage HD? I realize the performance won't be great, but I'm looking for
> the experience in how to build/configure the environment.
> Any tips?
> An alternative question for the lab environment is ... how would you do
> this
> in two VPC? Or would you steer clear?
> Thanks
> Al
> "Mike Epprecht (SQL MVP)" wrote:
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