Sometimes I think that the movie Conspiracy Theory should have been about the software industry today. What has become of it lately? Here is what I believe: · I believe the Anti-Virus companies write all the viruses. · I believe most software is way over priced. · I believe we now alpha test software...
But if you want to test failover clustering.... Standard SCSI based clustering will no longer work (yes I tested it, no go). Rocket Division StarWind will be the product you want to use to test Failover Clustering. http://www.rocketdivision.com/wind.html You will have to wait until the June 2007 time...
Clusters are Highly Available and should never be considered Fault Tolerant. Highly Available = is when I come anytime my wife calls me. Fault Tolerant = Marriage. You don't want to be married to you SQL/Exchange Cluster :) You do want it around whenever you need it though. Active/Active = when your...
Don’t panic, but you do have a problem. You look under Services and the Cluster service is running on the nodes. Open Cluster Administrator from one of the nodes, but don’t use the name of the cluster, the node name or an IP address, use a period (.). This will open it using a Local Procedure Call (LPC...
By now you are aware that SP2 is out for Windows Server 2003 and R2. I have already seen quite a few posts in the public newsgroups where people are not aware of a few things. The Good It is a really good idea to backup your system before you attempt any major update or service pack. Remember your backup...
The 2007 MVP Summit in Redmond/Seattle was awesome. Lots of great content. Here is what I learned: 1) SQL 2005 can cluster with Standard Edition (ok I knew that). What I learned was that you can have multiple SQL instances (that run on 2 nodes only) within any size cluster. So, if you have a 4 node cluster...
I was chosen again this year to speak at Tech Ed 2007 - http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007/default.mspx Here is the abstract: Be the very first to learn about Windows Server codename "Longhorn" Failover Clustering. Are you using Windows Server 2003 Clustering? Are you following best practices...
Microsoft Server Championships 2007 (for IT Professional) is here again. By paying HK$ 100 for a competition track, you can attend a skills enhancement seminar that is delivered by a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and be provided with white papers and supporting technical information. A hands-on lab training...
I can't believe it. Just when you think it's safe to go back to reading the web... Part II of the worst clustering article of all time is out. Back in July ( http://msmvps.com/blogs/clustering/archive/2005/07/21/58509.aspx ) I wrote how bad Part I was. Several months later Part II came out and I missed...
The question goes something like this: My cluster is installed and running SQL/Exchange nicely but I noticed that all the services for SQL/Exchange are set to start manaully. Should I set the services to automatic instead? Answer: Cluster controlled services should always be set to manual, so that the...