I'm doing research to prepare a new installation of SQL 2008 on Windows 2008
cluster on 64bit IBM Blade servers. Is there any documentation on this
particular environment?

Another question is, if I have built such an A/P cluster, is that possible
to join a third node later to be an A/A/P cluster?

Regards,

RG

Cluster + Blade = low availability.

Clusters exist to provide hardware redundancy.

Blades exist to share hardware as much as possible. Anyone else see the
problem here?

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Geoff N. Hiten
Principal SQL Infrastructure Consultant
Microsoft SQL Server MVP


"RoyalGala" <royal.gala (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks GNH. But I don't see Blades will decrease availability as the shared
hardware are redundant.
Any voice on this is welcome.

"Geoff N. Hiten" <SQLCraftsman (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

As far as multiple nodes, you can add more nodes easily later on. You can
also add more SQL Instances independent of nodes.
I do recommend using Windows 2008 as your base OS for clustering. The
Microsoft Clustering team did a really good job with the new improvements.

--
Geoff N. Hiten
Principal SQL Infrastructure Consultant
Microsoft SQL Server MVP




"RoyalGala" <royal.gala (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks for your input GNH. Actually I do concern of installing cluster on
Blade server will increase complexity and if not administer in proper way
it's even worse.

"Geoff N. Hiten" <SQLCraftsman (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote