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Hi,

I read in the SQL 2005 Exam guides for clustering that (p.283 - 70-443),
that if building a cluster on 64-bit Windows then must use Fibre drives?

I'm trying to verying this with help of Google/MSDN, and not found
confirmation anywhere.

Is this the case that running a cluster on 64-bit editions places these
restrictions on hardware?

If we want to go 64-bit, are we basically forced to accept a fibre-based SAN
as I/O system?


Thank you.

Craig

Windows 2003 64-bit does not require fibre drives. You can use anything
internal for the nodes. The shared disk can be Parallel Attached SCSI
(though I would not), iSCSI or SAN based.


Now Windows 2008 will not support PAS, but it will support SAS, SAN, or
iSCSI.

Cheers,

Rodney R. Fournier

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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