Re: Server availability in an Active Passive Cluster

<pavman27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1152723131.272405.236970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
First of all, thank all of you all for all your hard work that give us
folks light and guidance in what seems like a real dark room sometimes.

I have a single SQL server that I am looking to put into an
Active/Passive cluster.

You can't "put" a SQL server into a cluster. You must build the cluster
first and then install SQL to the cluster.

Unfortuantly, I have a truckload of
applications out there who are referencing the first sql computer name.
In my other Active/Passive clusters (Fileserver and Exchange), not only
does the virtual server respond, but the active server responds
directly as well.

I don't understand what you are saying here. The active server runs the
virtual server. Are you trying to say that the standalone SQL server (with
the same name as the virtual on the cluster) responds along with the cluster
virtual server? If so, that would be expected, but you should not be able to
have two SQL servers on the network supporting the same name.


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