Re: Installing SQL to a SAN

From: Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] (rod_at_die.spam.die.nw-america.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:56:28 -0600

Use the SAN like you would any drive. Attached it to the machine, and store
your databases and T-logs on it.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

"James" <hushdontspamme@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ebTQvZjzEHA.1300@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> We have a client that wants to implement a SAN to be shared by other
> servers.
>
> How do you setup a SQL server to use the SAN array? The client only has
> one SQL server (node).
>
> I have implemented SQL onto Active/Active and Active/Passive clustering
> before, but i am confuse to just how to install single SQL node to a SAN
> array (i.e no failover)
>
> Can anyone give me some pointers please
>
> Regards
>
> James
>

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