Re: Rolling upgrade on 2000 cluster

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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?

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"Peter Lykkegaard" <peter.aghl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi All
>
> We are going to upgrade a windows 2000/MSSQL 2000 cluster
> At the same time we'd like to upgrade some middleware on the same cluster
>
> Installation folder and configuration will change
> The new middleware version is partly backwards compatible but not fully
>
> We need to check a few things before setting it to production
>
> My idea was to move ressources to one node and remove the passive node
> from the cluster
> Upgrade to win2003 creating a new cluster (new name/ip) etc and check that
> everything is working
> Set it to production and upgrade the last node and add this to the new
> cluster
>
> Crazy?
>
> Any ideas/comments?
>
> NB! I have read the rolling upgrade thing and it sounds tempting :)
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/2e0186ba-1a09-42b5-81c8-3ecca4ddde5e.mspx
>
>
> Thanks/Peter
>


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