It's all about uptime. You can failover from node A to node B, reboot A.
Once A is back up, failover to A and reboot B.

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Tom

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Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS
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"Ian" <Ian (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

I have 2-note cluster SQL 2005 sp1 on Windows Server 2003 R2. What is the
better the sequence of Shutdown or reboot them when needed? Thanks