Re: Rolling upgrade on 2000 cluster

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"Ryan Sokolowski [MVP]" wrote

> Yes, I'm concerned as to why you're choosing to combine these tasks. Just
> upgrade the existing cluster in-place first. Do a rolling upgrade
> (without removing any nodes from the cluster) and get the whole thing to
> W2K3 first. Then address any application configuration changes or
> modifications afterwards...
>
> Make sense?
>
Yep no problems

The intial plan was to upgrade the middleware and leave the 2000 cluster as
is
The 2000 to 2003 upgrade was an addon project

After I have read the docs on rolling upgrade your suggestion was my own
conclusion as well :-)

Thanks/Peter


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