HPC Server 2008 High Availability - Part 3

Posted By: Giovanni Marchetti | Jun 24th, 2008 @ 12:01 AM | 11,076 Views | 2 Comments
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This is the third of a series of screencasts demonstrating how to set up HPC Server 2008 head nodes for high availability.
In this part we discuss the installation of SQL Server 2005 on a 2008 fail-over cluster.
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#Jun 24th, 2008 @ 5:34 PM
AlanBurchill
AlanBurchill
Dumb questions, why would you not just install SQL on 2008 Enterprise edition in a cluster? and what differences would there be if you used 2008 Enterprise edition in the screencast?

Alan
#Jul 2nd, 2008 @ 10:42 AM
gmarchetti
gmarchetti
Not dumb at all. You do need Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise Edition for the head nodes to be clustered. Sorry if it was not clear in the screencast. On the other hand, SQL 2005 x64 Standard Edition is sufficient for a 2-node fail-over cluster.

Giovanni
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