active/passive cluster with san drive

is there anywhere i can get a step by step order for
installing an active/passive sql2000 cluster on a win2k3
platform that shares an attached san drive. i have not
performed this before and am not sure about how to set up
the san drive. do i set up the disks on one or both
systems. or do i set up the disks on one and run the mscs
setup? any info would be appreciated. thanks.
jay
Strangely enough, BOL (Books On-Line) has a very good set of instructions on
setting up a failover cluster. You start with a working MSCS cluster
(Windows 2003 help files will get you started there).
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"jay mack" <jmack@.thecreek.com> wrote in message
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> is there anywhere i can get a step by step order for
> installing an active/passive sql2000 cluster on a win2k3
> platform that shares an attached san drive. i have not
> performed this before and am not sure about how to set up
> the san drive. do i set up the disks on one or both
> systems. or do i set up the disks on one and run the mscs
> setup? any info would be appreciated. thanks.
> jay
|||Hello Jay,
You may find this whitepaper helpful for setting up windows 2003 cluster
Step-by-step instructions for creating and configuring a typical single quorum device multi-node server cluster using a shared disk on servers running the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition operating systems.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
For SQL Server 2000 clustering, the following Microsoft Whitepaper is good
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../failclus.mspx
This whitepaper was released before Win2K3 and does not discuss about it. Although most of the things are same for SQL 2K Failover cluster on Win2K3, here are some things that are different/unsupported:
Installation of a Named Instance of SQL Server 2000 Virtual Server on a Windows 2003-Based Cluster Fails
http://support.microssoft.com/?id=815431
SQL Server 2000 Cluster Does Not Install on Windows Server 2003-Based Computers Where Terminal Services Is Installed
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=301520
SQL Server 2000 Is Not Supported on Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Application Server
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327270
Virtual SQL Server 2000 Installation Fails on Cluster That Has Eight Nodes
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=811054
SQL Server 2000 support for mounted volumes
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=819546
HTH,
Best Regards,
Uttam Parui
Microsoft Corporation
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