SQL Server 2000 Cluster Upgrade
Apr 2, 2008
We're upgrading a SQL Server 2000 cluster (Active/Passive) running on Windows 2003 Server 32 - bit Standard to a SQL Server 2005 Cluster running on Windows Server 2003 64-bit Enterprise. Our existent cluster's databases are residing on SAN. We can't purchase new hardware and we have no spare hardware. We also need to move from Windows 2003 32-bit Server to Windows 2003 64-bit Enterprise Server at the same time. We want to keep downtime to a bare minimum.
What we were thinking was the following steps... Anyone try this?
1. Break the link between the servers. Or should we just evict the passive node?
2. Install a fresh copy of windows 2003 64-bit server on one side along with SQL Server 2005. While this step is running, the active node would still be live on Windows 2003 32-bit Server and SQL Server 2000 serving our customers.
3. Bring the active server down.
4. Create new cluster on the newly upgraded server and assign the same cluster name and IP as the original one.
5 Bring the luns from SAN to the newly upgraded server and initialize SQL Upgrade
6. As a final step, the old active node will be rebuilt, we would install a fresh copy of windows 2003 64 - bit server on it and sql server 2005. At this point we would bring it back into the cluster and the cluster would be complete again.
Thoughts?
View 1 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
May 8, 2007
Hi
We are planning to upgrade the SQL Server in our production environment from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. This is a 4 Node cluster environment with 3 Databases on 3 Virtual instances. The main requirement is to achieve this with no/minimal downtime.
Could you please suggest or direct me to any documentation for the best practices used to upgrade such an environment?
Thanks
Priyanka
View 2 Replies
View Related
Sep 13, 2006
I have a production failover cluster running SQL Server 2000 at SP3that I want to upgrade to SP4. I do not have a test failover clusterto test with so I need the install on the primary server to work thefirst time. Per the information I have I just install the patch on theprimary server and it will install both on the primary and on thesecondary.However, I remember when I did the initial install and it failed. Thefirst problem traced to the fact that the install uses temporary filesunder the profile of the installing administrator and the id had neverlogged into the second server so the install failed on creating thetemporary file. The was a second problem that related to an OS featurethat had to be off for the install to work.If anyone out there has done this upgrade and remembers encountering aproblem and its fix/workaround I would appreciate a head up warning.Thank you-- Mark D Powell --
View 1 Replies
View Related
Aug 14, 2006
I have upgraded our test server and on non cluster production machine. My next server is a cluster and I don't have a test cluster server. Do I upgrade the active node and that is all or am I going to need to fail it over and upgrade the other node.
Also the prerequesite for the upgrade advisor is .net 2.0 I am going to up that on each server one at a time but I am only going to add the upgrade advisor to one node is that ok.
I read the SP1 documentation and it clearly states only patch the active node and do not patch the inactive nodes.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Sep 17, 2007
Good Morning!
I am beginning the process of moving SQL 2000 databases to SQL 2005 cluster.
Has anyone already did this and is there anything I should know?
We plan on leaving the SQL 2000 database up during this process and granting read only at the time.
I am nervous about this as this is a high profile database in our dept.
I don't even know if I know where to begin!
Any suggestions are truely welcome!
Thanks,
/P
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 17, 2000
I am trying to upgrade a SQL Server 6.5(Cluster) to SQL Serevr 7.0 (Cluster)..I already have an intsllation of 7.0(On a Cluster),so this means that 6.5 and sql 7 are on seperate cluster's ,if i try to upgrade from 6.5 Cluster to 7.0 Cluster is asks me to uncluster 6.5 and 7.0 is this correct ,assume i cannot break the cluster then what???.. what is the best way i can achieve this functinality.....
thanks in advance
Jack
View 1 Replies
View Related
Oct 10, 2015
During the installation of Adding node to a SQL Server failover cluster(On passive node) getting error like.. The MOF compiler could not connect with the WMI server. This is either because of a semantic error such as an incompatibility with the existing WMI repository or an actual error such as the failure of the WMI server to start.We run the below commands but didn’t get any resolution & got the same above error .
1<sup>st</sup> Method…
1. Open console command (Run->CMD with administrator privileges).
2. net stop winmgmt
3. Rename folder %windir%System32WbemRepository to other one, for backup purposes (for example _Repository).
4. net start winmgmt
2<sup>nd</sup> Method..
1. Disable and stop the WMI service.
a) Command : - sc config winmgmt start= disabled
b. Command : - net stop winmgmt
2. Run the following commands.
a). Command: Winmgmt /salvagerepository %windir%System32wbem
b). Command: Winmgmt /resetrepository %windir%System32wbem
3. Re-enable the WMI service
Command: sc config winmgmt start= auto
Last command to run after above steps
4. Command: mofcomp "%programfiles(x86)%Microsoft SQL Server100Sharedsqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof"
File not found Error for above command.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 6, 2015
Can I build a cluster by adding the cluster service, then the SQL instances, then add the other nodes and their passive SQL instances?I would lean to building the cluster first, the add the SQL instances.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Aug 17, 2006
Hi all,
i am in the process of upgrading my clustered SQL 7 to a new cluster with SQL 2005.
I tried to run Upgrade advisor against the SQL 7 cluster but i am not able to make it work.
I checked prerequisites on my client machine, checked if my account has administrator privileges on thew cluster and everything seem fine.
I tried to run UA using node name, virtual server name (as suggested in the help), IP address (both node and virtual server ones) and even SQL 7 instance name (!) with no result.
Are there any issue about upgrade advisor against a SQL 7 cluster ? or am I missing something about Upgrade advisor??
thanks for your help
View 1 Replies
View Related
Dec 28, 2007
We're upgrading a SQL Server 2000 cluster (Active/Passive) running on Windows 2000 Server to a SQL Server 2005 Cluster running on Windows Server 2003. We can't purchase new hardware and we have no spare hardware. We also need to move from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 2003 Server at the same time. We want to keep downtime to a bare minimum.
What we were thinking was the following steps... Anyone try this?
1. Break the link between the servers.
2. Install a fresh copy of windows 2003 server on one side along with SQL Server 2005. While this step is running, the active node would still be live on Windows 2000 Server and SQL Server 2000 serving our customers.
3. Restore a copy of a backup from the active production side to the node we're upgrading and at that point we would bring the active node down, switching the active node to be the newly upgraded server.
4. As a final step, the old active node would now have the link to it broken, we would install a fresh copy of windows 2003 server on it and sql server 2005. At this point we would bring it back into the cluster and the cluster would be complete again.
Thoughts?
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 14, 2008
Friends -
Need your help and guidence for doing upgrading SQL Server 2000 Cluster to SQL Server 2005 Cluster.
Let me explain my current environment.
1. Currently SQL Server 2000 Cluster environment is running on Windows 2000 Server we need to upgrade this to SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2003 Server. >>> Production environment.
My Plans:
1. On Testing Environment Install SQL Server 2000 cluster on Windows 2003 Server and do a restore of databases from the produciton environment.
2. Upgrade In-Place from SQL Server 2000 Cluster to SQL Server 2005 Cluster.
My doubts
1. Can i install SQL Server 2000 Cluster on Windows 2003 Server. Is it possible or not.
Please advise me and correct my steps.
Cheers
VSH
View 1 Replies
View Related
Sep 29, 2006
Hello there,
We have about a dozen SQL server 2000 Enterprise Edition servers in house. Our goal is to set up a cluster SQL server 2005 and consodiate the existing dozen servers to a few servers for easy manage and maintainence. So there are 3 things that we want to accomplish:
1. upgrade to SQL server 2005,
2. Consolidate existing servers
3. Make a cluster server to get high availability
But I'm sure what's the right order to acheive them. To upgrade each server to 2005 and then move them to cluster server? or set up the cluster server in 2005 and restore existing dbs to the cluster server. upgrade first or cluster first? upgrade first or consolidate first? pros and cons? upgrade or backup/restore? What do you recommend? We have lots of stored procedures, views and triggers, DTS packages and some replications. Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
-Jessie
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 23, 2015
I ran into problem while trying to install SQL Server 2008 to join to another node in a failover cluster ,you will find here the configuration doc and installation details. URL...
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jun 24, 2015
I have destroyed the cluster in failover cluster manager and then i am trying to remove node from the sql server installation centre.I am facing the cluster node and cluster service verification errors.I am not able to start the cluster service in services as well.
View 4 Replies
View Related
May 15, 2008
Friends -
Could any one of you provide steps for upgrading SQL Server 2000 cluster to SQL server 2005 cluster.
My environment is Windows 2003 server.
Appreciate your support.
Cheers
VSH
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 4, 2007
I have two Windows 2000 servers (Advance Edition) to form a Windows Cluster. I also install MS SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition on the cluster to form a MS SQL cluster. Now, I want to upgrade the hardware and OS (but keep on using SQL 2000), so I install Windows 2003 server Enterprise Edition on two new servers to form a new Windows Cluster. I am planing to install MS SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition on the new cluster, so the old SQL cluster and new SQL cluster are side by side. I would like to know how to setup a new SQL cluster (I know it has problem to rename SQL Cluster name, so how to fix this problem)? And how to transfer everything (such as system databases, users database, sql user account, password and maintenance plan jobs etc) from old SQL cluster to new SQL cluster? And how to switch over from old SQL cluster to new SQL cluster?
Thanks a lot !
View 8 Replies
View Related
Feb 24, 2005
Hello, i have a question that the sql server 2000 is install in window 2000 server. If i want to update to window 2003. Is that any problem in sql server 2000. I am worry about whether we will have problem after update. What i need to do? Many thanks.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jul 20, 2005
Hi,I need manuals, tecnical papres, instalation guide, etc abouthow to install one cluster sql server 2000 64 bits withwindows server 2003.It`s posible a need one document step by step about thisThanks,RaulGZ.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 29, 2008
Hi, could someone tell me if this configuration is possible?
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 with 3 instances at the same time.
Help please? thanks
View 3 Replies
View Related
Mar 26, 2008
We have 2 SQL servers in a failover cluster environment. SQL1 and SQL2. Currently SQL1 is the primary in the cluster, and we need to upgrade from Service Pack 3 to Service Pack 4.
Our setup:
Both servers are Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition.
Both servers have SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3.
My question is:
Which upgrade plan do I take? Do I:
1. Upgrade the backup (offline) server in the cluster (SQL2) first, reboot, then failover from SQL1 to SQL2? Then do the other server?
2. Upgrade the primary (online) server in the cluster (SQL1) first and see if it replicates to the backup?
Any advice or tips would be most appreciated.
Thanks.
View 6 Replies
View Related
May 11, 2007
Have recently performed an in-place upgrade of a 2 instance sql cluster from 2000 to 2005. The upgrade process went relatively smoothly. However, I am running into problems installed sp2. The first problem that I run into is that I have resrcmon.exe locked. I can click next, which is fine, but once I get past that point I get stuck during the installation process. I am updating DatabaseServices and Integration Services. It gets stuck on 'Awaiting first complete passive cluster node SQL-Test'. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Tim
View 14 Replies
View Related
Oct 4, 2006
Hi There
I have upgraded many standalone sql server instances however never a cluster.
I have an active active 2 node cluster. Each running an instance of Sql Serevr , 1 default and the other a named instance.
All i can find in BOL is "How to: Upgrade to a SQL Server 2005 Failover Cluster (Setup) ", however this does not tell you how to upgrade and existing cluster.
Is there anything different ?
Will the upgrade detect the cluster and upgrade binary files on both nodes automatically etc? In other words is there anything different i have to be aware of when upgrading sql server instances cluster?
Thanx
View 4 Replies
View Related
Sep 10, 2001
the first 2 parts install but the installation fails on the MSDE installation.
It gves me an error like about invalid installation media or something?
I have sql server enterprise.
plz help
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 7, 2004
I'm running the SQL 2000 upgrade wizard and this error came up in the final phases of the upgrade to SQL 2000. The phase is doing the Export Import of the Table data:
Error: Couldn't connect to the ADMIN$ share on the export machine. Verify that the MSSQLServer Service uses a NT Domain account that is part of the Administrator's group of the export machine and that both machines are in the same domain.
I've checked and service account are in the local admin group and both are in the same resource domain. The service account is in the accounts domain.
I have SQL server 6.5 with service pack 5a. Another machine with W2k and SQL server 2000 with SP3 and disables cnv6x70.dll.
Thanks
View 3 Replies
View Related
Feb 18, 2004
Hello,
We've some of the boxes are SQL Server 7.0 with 65 compatability and SQL Server 7.0 with 70 compatability. Now we are planing to upgrade to SQL 2000 with 80 compatability.
My question, how much complicated it is?
Is there any code changes to do in Stored Procs or Triggers or other? and what are the differences?
If lot of code changes, is there any tool to scan stored procedures?
(As we've more 5000 Stored Procedures)
If my question is not clear, let me know.
Thanks!
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 7, 2006
I have:
Server x with windows 2000 server sp4
It was SQL 2000 STD, when it was originally installed.
Now is SQL 2000 Personal edition SP4.
We dont know how it became sql 2000 personal edition.
We are assuming that an administrator had to re-install SQL and used the wrong CD.
Anybody know of any problems I can find when trying to upgrade to SQL 2000 STD??
Should I un-install and then re-install?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Dec 10, 2006
Hi,
We have a new failover cluster (Windows 2003 SP1, Microsoft SQL 2000 SP4) with each node of the cluster hosting 7 SQL Server instances in a 2-node active-active configuration connected to a SAN. We are planning to move some SQL Server Instances(from existing stand-alone servers) into this Cluster. Any insight into the process of moving SQL Servers into the cluster would be highly appreciated.
Best Regards,
Himansu
View 4 Replies
View Related
Nov 8, 2001
Hey guys,
Lately we have come across a problem where our application is undergoing some extreme load against the SQL 2000 server database we have setup, where the server is hitting 100% CPU utilization each time. Currently the box is a 2 processor box.
Here is the question I have. I have seen under most SQL Server clusters that an active/passive setup is implemented. Where the passive server just exists as a failover mechanism. What I am looking for is some information on how to setup active/active setup where each server receives processes to handle.
Has anyone created a setup like this? Are there any standard benchmarking tools that can be used to see how this configuration increases performance? Is this setup more favorable than going to a 4 processor server as oppossed to our current 2 processor server?
BTW: We have noticed that after a web application where the user sits idle for a while the SQL Server application loses the connection with the application user...Is this the SQL Timeout causing the connection to disconnect?
Thanx for any response...
Bri
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jun 24, 2008
Friends -
Currently we are using SQL Server 2000 Cluster (Active/Active) on windows 2000 advance server.
This cluster contains two nodes.
Is it possible to add another two nodes on the existing cluster, please provide me steps or any link.
Appreciate your support
Cheers:)
satish
View 1 Replies
View Related
Nov 5, 2007
We have a sql2000 clustered server running on a windows 2003 cluster, today we noticed that the
SQL resources where in a Online Pending state and do not came up anymore.
I have searched the net and found some info about the sqlstate = 08001 Native error 11 , witch indicated that the SQL Network name could have been renamed , however this is not the case here , .
i also found that there might be Resolve issue but The Cluster Name and the SQL Network name can be resolved by both Cluster nodes ..
does anyone here got experience with this kind of problem ? Pls Help
Here is a part of the cluster.log with the errors :
ERR SQL Server : [sqsrvres] ODBC sqldriverconnect failed
ERR SQL Server : [sqsrvres] checkODBCConnectError: sqlstate = 08001; native error = 11; message = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
ERR SQL Server : [sqsrvres] ODBC sqldriverconnect failed
ERR SQL Server : [sqsrvres] checkODBCConnectError: sqlstate = 01000; native error = 2; message = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen (Connect()).
ERR SQL Server : [sqsrvres] ODBC sqldriverconnect failed
ERR SQL Server : [sqsrvres] checkODBCConnectError: sqlstate = 08001; native error = 11; message = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
ERR SQL Server : [sqsrvres] ODBC sqldriverconnect failed
ERR SQL Server : [sqsrvres] checkODBCConnectError: sqlstate = 01000; native error = 2; message = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen (Connect()).
INFO [CP] CppRegNotifyThread checkpointing key SOFTWAREMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL ServerDBHSBMSSQLSERVER to id 4 due to timer
INFO [Qfs] QfsGetTempFileName C:DOCUME~1SRVCCL~1LOCALS~1Temp, CLS, 13 => C:DOCUME~1SRVCCL~1LOCALS~1TempCLSD.tmp, status 0
According to the SQL server log the server is started and all databases are brought on-line then a stop request from Service Control Manager terminates SQL Server see log below:
2007-11-05 14:04:02.89 server Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2039 (Intel X86)
May 3 2005 23:18:38
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: )
2007-11-05 14:04:02.89 server Copyright (C) 1988-2002 Microsoft Corporation.
2007-11-05 14:04:02.89 server All rights reserved.
2007-11-05 14:04:02.89 server Server Process ID is 3264.
2007-11-05 14:04:02.89 server Logging SQL Server messages in file 'P:mssqlMSSQL$DBHSBlogERRORLOG'.
2007-11-05 14:04:02.89 server SQL Server is starting at priority class 'high'(2 CPUs detected).
2007-11-05 14:04:03.61 server initdata: Warning: Could not set working set size to 823168 KB.
2007-11-05 14:04:03.66 server SQL Server configured for thread mode processing.
2007-11-05 14:04:03.72 server Using dynamic lock allocation. [2500] Lock Blocks, [5000] Lock Owner Blocks.
2007-11-05 14:04:03.77 server Attempting to initialize Distributed Transaction Coordinator.
2007-11-05 14:04:06.32 spid2 Starting up database 'master'.
2007-11-05 14:04:06.52 spid2 Server name is 'HSBSQL01DBHSB'.
2007-11-05 14:04:06.52 spid5 Starting up database 'msdb'.
2007-11-05 14:04:06.52 spid6 Starting up database 'model'.
2007-11-05 14:04:06.52 spid8 Starting up database 'dbHSB'.
2007-11-05 14:04:06.52 server Using 'SSNETLIB.DLL' version '8.0.2039'.
2007-11-05 14:04:06.56 server SQL server listening on 10.122.131.103: 1433.
2007-11-05 14:04:06.62 spid8 Analysis of database 'dbHSB' (7) is 100% complete (approximately 0 more seconds)
2007-11-05 14:04:06.63 server SQL server listening on TCP, Shared Memory, Named Pipes.
2007-11-05 14:04:06.63 server SQL Server is ready for client connections
2007-11-05 14:04:06.66 spid6 Clearing tempdb database.
2007-11-05 14:04:07.10 spid6 Starting up database 'tempdb'.
2007-11-05 14:04:07.20 spid2 Recovery complete.
2007-11-05 14:04:07.20 spid2 SQL global counter collection task is created.
2007-11-05 14:04:16.41 spid1 Warning: unable to allocate 'min server memory' of 1658MB.
2007-11-05 14:10:45.18 spid2 SQL Server is terminating due to 'stop' request from Service Control Manager.
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 31, 2007
I'm upgrading MSSQL2000 (RTM) cluster to 2005. I haven't seen any information regarding a minimum service pack level for 2000. This upgrade just makes me overly caution.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Feb 9, 2001
I would like to upgrade my database from 7 to 2000, are there any white papers or guide i can read. Or dose anyone have advise they can give?
Thanks
View 1 Replies
View Related
Dec 14, 2001
Hi,
I run into a problem which I cannot connect to the database using SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager. The SQL Server 2000 was working well until I hook a SQL Server 7.0 application to it. The error message: "General OLE Error 16386, You must upgrade your SQL Enterprise Manager & SQL-DMO (SQLOLE) to SQL Server 2000 (SQLDMO) to connect to this server". I checked fixed in the sp1 for SQL Server 2000, and found no entry. In MS support website and found nothing. Need help from someone who has experience on this. Thanks in Advance.
Eugene
View 1 Replies
View Related
