Ok guys..
I have 2 64bit 2003 servers both identical. 1tb of storage raid 10 on both.
Both are member servers in domain. I want to do failover clustering on them
for sql database. I have local share on the primary called sqldata. Why cant

I just installed Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP 2 x64 Edition on a pair
of brand new Dell servers but do not see the cluster service in the service
manager. Do I need to add this manually or did I miss an install step?
Thanks,

I posted previously about a 2-node Windows 2003 cluster where one node
completely died.
I have evicted it, and rebuilt the new node.
With regard to presenting the LUN's, I want to verify the best method to do

I recently added a no of 1.99TB disk resources to an existing cluster.
Currently I have them in a seperate group for testing failover/failback etc.
When I move the group from one node to another I get the following warning
for each disk. Everything seems ok in that the disks are ...

I have just had a disasterous day trying to add new SAN disks to an existing
W2K3 cluster. The SAN install and config was done by the SAN supplier.
Basically 4 new disk groups (RAID5) were created, 12 new LUNS were added and
then bound to the SAN server group containing both ...

I got a weird problem that I need help with troubleshooting.  From time to
time I test the failover of my cluster just to make sure things are skipping
along.  In my cluster I have SQL 2005 installed in the cluster as a clustered
service.  Let me know if I need to ask the SQL ...

Ok so I am getting ready to migrate to a new SAN. I have a couple of the
posts on here in regards to moving my Quorum and msdtc. My question now
comes with I want to have multiple disks in 1 group. For example. The
cluster server I am migrating is a file server. So we currently ...

I have a 2 Node cluster running Windows 2003 Enterprise x64 (SP2). The
cluster service cannot be started on 1 node. Now all resources are on the
other node. In event viewer Event ID 1094 is seen " Cluster service failed to
obtain information from the server cluster configuration ...

Everyone,
I need some guidence when it comes to creating the virtual swap file in my
clustered environment.  I have two servers (active/passive) with 16GB of RAM
and a shared SAN.  This server is a SQL/File Server and one of the issues I'm

I have SQL server 2000 running on cluster realized using 2003 EE. The cluster
is active/passive, SQL is installed on both nodes while its data file resides
on a NAS.
It works.

This is a long  shot I think, but I am not sure what to do next, maybe
someone can think of something...
I have a two node dell cluster.  It runs SQL 2005.
Each node's public interface has an IP address .231 and .232

ls,
I have a two node cluster (W2k3 R2 sp2 and fully patched) configured
following the MS whitepaper. All kinds of failover (stop service, graceful
shutdown) tests are succesful. But when the node owning the resources is

I was hoping someone could provide some guidance on a project.  I have
been asked to setup a print server solution for multiple sites. Sites
have a fiber connection so bandwidth is not an issue.  Each site has
an HP EVA 8000 series SAN so I was considering setting this up as a

So here is what I did:
Created new drive in SAN at allocated to Cluster group.
Cluster Server 1 – used wizard to set up new drive as basic. Gave it a drive
letter and a name.

I need to complitely reinstall a single node of an active/passive
Server2000 cluster. I did the evict and reinstalled the chrushed node,
and now I have to rejoin it to the cluster. Is it possible to present
the shared disks to the new node without shutting down the running