Does any one have experiences with Mixed mode cluster?
I am trying to add a windows 2003 node as primary node to an existing
window 2000 active passive cluster.

Here is what i did:
From WINDOWS 2000 Active/Passive SQL 2000 cluster, Evicted the PRimary node.
Loaded WINDOWS 2003 onto the primary node.
It is a new intstall of WINDOWS 2003 not upgrade from 2000 to 2003.
NOw i am trying to join this node to the cluster but it is not able to find
the cluster service on the primary node which has windows 2003.
And i get the error 0x87000b.
Thanks
Anand

Primary and Secondary nodes are a concept from SQL 7.0 and do not apply to
this situation. You need to run the cluster wizard on the Windows 2003 node
and add it to the existing cluster. This is assuming the new node has
proper access to the shared storage system.

I am not sure if it will work. The only time I have run a mixed mode
cluster was while I was upgrading the hosts. Once I upgraded, I went back
and rebuilt each node from scratch, just so I would have a clean install of
Windows 2003.

Good luck.

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