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Cluster wants to use shared data disks.
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cluster 2008 overview:<br />
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<a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/b/5/3b51a025-7522-4686-aa16-8ae2e536034d/Overview%20of%20Failover%20Clustering%20with%20Windows%20Server%202008.doc" rel="ugc">http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/b/5/3b51a025-7522-4686-aa16-8ae2e536034d/Overview%20of%20Failover%20Clustering%20with%20Windows%20Server%202008.doc</a>
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cluster 2008 overview:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/b/5/3b51a025-7522-4686-aa16-8ae2e536034d/Overview%20of%20Failover%20Clustering%20with%20Windows%20Server%202008.doc [http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/b/5/3b51a025-7522-4686-aa16-8ae2e536034d/Overview%20of%20Failover%20Clustering%20with%20Windows%20Server%202008.doc]

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So basicaly you can not use the local drives to run a cluster then.
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So basicaly you can not use the local drives to run a cluster then.

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i have read that volume sharing is possible in 2008 Enterprise R2 however the only version of that I've found least on the volume license and tech net sites is the 64 bit version. &nbsp;All of our programing is based on 32bit software and our programmer doesn't want to go to 64bit.
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i have read that volume sharing is possible in 2008 Enterprise R2 however the only version of that I've found least on the volume license and tech net sites is the 64 bit version.  All of our programing is based on 32bit software and our programmer doesn't want to go to 64bit.

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2008 R2 OS is 64 bit, only Windows 2008 has a 32 bit version available.<br />
To cluster properly one would want to use the correct back end. 
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2008 R2 OS is 64 bit, only Windows 2008 has a 32 bit version available.
To cluster properly one would want to use the correct back end.

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We are looking at setting up a cluster.<br />
The 2 servers are running 2008 Enterprise.<br />
Both would have SQL server 2008 standard.<br />
I have a raid 5 1tb drive on both servers.<br />
However, running the test, it reported no hard drives found.<br />
The question is can you run data storage on the same computer your trying to use for a cluster or do you have to run a san behind it?
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We are looking at setting up a cluster.
The 2 servers are running 2008 Enterprise.
Both would have SQL server 2008 standard.
I have a raid 5 1tb drive on both servers.
However, running the test, it reported no hard drives found.
The question is can you run data storage on the same computer your trying to use for a cluster or do you have to run a san behind it?

Server 2008 SQL 2008 cluster

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 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. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.