Hi,

I've 3 PC. 2 x Win2K AS and 1 Win2K Pro. Is it possible to cluster the 2
Win2K AS as Primary & Secondary while the Win2K Pro serves as the shared disk
server ?

Do I need to get a Raid card for Win2K Pro PC ?

Advice pls.

You might be able to use iSCSI on the XP box, though I have not tested it.

Other then that, you are asking for instructions that probably don't exist,
and if they did would probably not be supported. If you are in need of a
test environment, may I suggest VS 2005?

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

"Desmond" <Desmond (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

Forget about using the Win2K Pro as the 'shared disk server' (I took 'shared
disk server' to mean file server). Get an external RAID controller and some
disks to serve as the shared disks, and use the two Win2K AS as the nodes.

Linchi

"Desmond" <Desmond (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

If this is for production please be sure that you have read the following
KB article and are aware of the limitations of a non-dertified solution:

327518 INF: The Microsoft Support Policy for a SQL Server Failover Cluster
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327518

To setup a test enviroment you will need at least one external SCSI drive
or ability to setup using iSCSI

Dave Whitney
SQL Support


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