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One of my staff set up a virtual SQL cluster and I am quite sure the host computer only had one NIC. &nbsp;He set up two virtual NIC's on each VM, one private, one public.
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One of my staff set up a virtual SQL cluster and I am quite sure the host computer only had one NIC.  He set up two virtual NIC's on each VM, one private, one public.

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I'm not sure what you are actually asking. Each machine in the cluster needs two NICs - one to provide network access and one for the hearbeat/monitoring between the cluster.
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I'm not sure what you are actually asking. Each machine in the cluster needs two NICs - one to provide network access and one for the hearbeat/monitoring between the cluster.

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this helped
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-1058354.html [http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-1058354.html]

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I am setting up an sql 2005 cluster on a virtual test environment and was wondering if i should have 2 network card as a private and public network cards for this 2003 cluster. 
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I am setting up an sql 2005 cluster on a virtual test environment and was wondering if i should have 2 network card as a private and public network cards for this 2003 cluster. 

2003 cluster nic

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005

The Windows operating systems have distinct methodologies for designing and implementing networks, and have specific systems to accomplish various networking processes, such as Exchange for email, Sharepoint for shared files and programs, and IIS for delivery of web pages. Microsoft also produces server technologies for networked database use, security and virtualization.

Windows Networking

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).