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Elidas
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33 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-30 : 05:53:59
Hi, could someone tell me if this configuration is possible in SQL Server 2000 or 2005?

Machine A: Instance 1 (ACTIVE) + Instance 2 (passive) + Instance 3 (pasive)
Machine B: Instance 1 (passive) + Instance 2 (ACTIVE) + Instance 3 (pasive)
Machine C: Instance 1 (passive) + Instance 2 (passive) + Instance 3 (ACTIVE)

I know that it is possible with 2 machines with the clasical solution of Machine1: active-passive, Machine2: passive-active, this way if one of the machines goes down the other one will take the job of both instances, but I dont know if this solution is possible in SQL server 2000 or 2005 with 3 instances at the same time.

Help please? thanks

eyechart
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3575 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-30 : 11:33:24
so you are just wanting to run one instance of sql on each of the 3 nodes of you cluster right? that is definitely possible with either sql 2000 or sql 2005.
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Elidas
Starting Member

33 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-31 : 03:31:44
If machine A fails is there any way that the machine with more resources avaiable be the one that take the failover of machine A?
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rmiao
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7266 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-31 : 23:53:44
You have to specify preferred failover node for each instance.
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