Hi, we have an active/passive cluster which hosts our production database.
Transactional replication is being made from the production to a 'reporting'
database residing on a lone server. We will need to install Analysis service
for the construction of cubes.

I was wondering where Analysis service should be installed?

Is is ok to install it on the lone server and have it use the data from the
reporting database (which is filled via transactional replication)? Will
Analysis service have a problem with this based on the fact that it is
reading a read only database which doesnt have primary keys in the tables?

OR, should analysis service be installed on the cluster? Is it cluster
aware?

At this stage we are thinking of only running the cubes at night to generate
the data for export to reporting service.

Would it then be a good idea to install reporting service on this same lone
server?

Any insight would be most appreciated!

Cheers, john