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This document from Microsoft was a godsend when I was doing exactly the same....<br />
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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=818234dc-a17b-4f09-b282-c6830fead499&displaylang=en" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=818234dc-a17b-4f09-b282-c6830fead499&displaylang=en</a>
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This document from Microsoft was a godsend when I was doing exactly the same....

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=818234dc-a17b-4f09-b282-c6830fead499&displaylang=en [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=818234dc-a17b-4f09-b282-c6830fead499&displaylang=en]

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This document should help.Thank you.
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I plan to build a 2 node MS SQL Server 2005 failover cluster on 2 HP Blade servers running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit. I need some recommendations on configuration from your experience or a best practice checklist.
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I plan to build a 2 node MS SQL Server 2005 failover cluster on 2 HP Blade servers running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit. I need some recommendations on configuration from your experience or a best practice checklist.

Need best practices for building a Microsoft SQL 2005 failover cluster.

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

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).