Active-Active Windows 2003 cluster.

Hi all,

I could find several solutions searching for posts in Clustering section,
but am still having doubts.

We are going to install servers for our erp application - SAP. One server
shall be DB server (Database) and another CI server (Content). OS - Windows
Server 2003 -R2, Enterprise Edition and SQL 2005.
We want to have both these servers to be clustered as Active-Active. Going
through the posts, Active-Active does not seem to be recommended from
microsoft compared to Active-Passive cluster.
Can someone please guide about this ?
Also if someone can please provide link - how to configure Active-Active
cluster in Windows server 2003. Sort of step-by-step guide ?

Thanks in advance.

abc

Active-Active cluster implies that you will two or more resource groups,
which under "normal" circumstances will be running on different cluster
nodes. The process of implementing an active-active cluster is for the most
part the same as an active-passive one - the primary difference comes into
plan during failover planning phase (in particular, with multi-node
clusters)...

hth
Marcin

"abckid" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I could find several solutions searching for posts in Clustering section,
> but am still having doubts.
>
> We are going to install servers for our erp application - SAP. One server
> shall be DB server (Database) and another CI server (Content). OS -
> Windows
> Server 2003 -R2, Enterprise Edition and SQL 2005.
> We want to have both these servers to be clustered as Active-Active. Going
> through the posts, Active-Active does not seem to be recommended from
> microsoft compared to Active-Passive cluster.
> Can someone please guide about this ?
> Also if someone can please provide link - how to configure Active-Active
> cluster in Windows server 2003. Sort of step-by-step guide ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> abc

Hi,

Thanks for reply.

Is there any step-by-step guide for configuration or failover planning ?

Thanks again.

abc.


"Marcin" wrote:

> Active-Active cluster implies that you will two or more resource groups,
> which under "normal" circumstances will be running on different cluster
> nodes. The process of implementing an active-active cluster is for the most
> part the same as an active-passive one - the primary difference comes into
> plan during failover planning phase (in particular, with multi-node
> clusters)...
>
> hth
> Marcin
>
> "abckid" <> wrote in message
> newsDCCBA80-D621-40CD-BEC3-...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I could find several solutions searching for posts in Clustering section,
> > but am still having doubts.
> >
> > We are going to install servers for our erp application - SAP. One server
> > shall be DB server (Database) and another CI server (Content). OS -
> > Windows
> > Server 2003 -R2, Enterprise Edition and SQL 2005.
> > We want to have both these servers to be clustered as Active-Active. Going
> > through the posts, Active-Active does not seem to be recommended from
> > microsoft compared to Active-Passive cluster.
> > Can someone please guide about this ?
> > Also if someone can please provide link - how to configure Active-Active
> > cluster in Windows server 2003. Sort of step-by-step guide ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > abc
>
>
>

Refer to
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

hth
Marcin

"abckid" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Thanks for reply.
>
> Is there any step-by-step guide for configuration or failover planning ?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> abc.
>
>
> "Marcin" wrote:
>
>> Active-Active cluster implies that you will two or more resource groups,
>> which under "normal" circumstances will be running on different cluster
>> nodes. The process of implementing an active-active cluster is for the
>> most
>> part the same as an active-passive one - the primary difference comes
>> into
>> plan during failover planning phase (in particular, with multi-node
>> clusters)...
>>
>> hth
>> Marcin
>>
>> "abckid" <> wrote in message
>> newsDCCBA80-D621-40CD-BEC3-...
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I could find several solutions searching for posts in Clustering
>> > section,
>> > but am still having doubts.
>> >
>> > We are going to install servers for our erp application - SAP. One
>> > server
>> > shall be DB server (Database) and another CI server (Content). OS -
>> > Windows
>> > Server 2003 -R2, Enterprise Edition and SQL 2005.
>> > We want to have both these servers to be clustered as Active-Active.
>> > Going
>> > through the posts, Active-Active does not seem to be recommended from
>> > microsoft compared to Active-Passive cluster.
>> > Can someone please guide about this ?
>> > Also if someone can please provide link - how to configure
>> > Active-Active
>> > cluster in Windows server 2003. Sort of step-by-step guide ?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > abc
>>
>>
>>