Hi,

A subcontractor have an installation package for an application, which
is currently running fine on a cluster, but the installation package
itself does not support clustering they say (they are having problems
upgrading the installer using the installation package and it is said
that this does not work because of clustering).

For this reason, the subcontrator wants to have a standalone (non
clustered) instance, on which they can perform the upgrade, and they
have asked us if it is possible to install a MSSQL instance on one of
the existing cluster nodes, without having the instance a part of the
cluster (using local disks or SAN not shared with the cluster). Is it
doable? And most important of all, is it supported by Microsoft (in a
production environment)?

MS SQL Server 2005 x64
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition

Björn Pettersson (bjopette (AT) gmail (DOT) com) writes:
So they would attach the database to this single node instead,
perform the upgrade, detach the database, and reattach it in the
cluster?

But then they could just as well as run the upgrade on a machine that
is not part of the cluster, couldn't they?


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