August 2009 - Windows 2008 Administration

In this Blog entry I review some of the Monitoring, Health Status Reporting and Alerting capabilities of using the Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Windows Cluster Management Packs to maintain a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster running SQL 2008 Failover Cluster Services. I offer details on how System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 provides a suitable Operational Management Platform for supporting Windows 2008 Failover Clustering and SQL 2008 Failover Clustering. ...

In this Blog entry, the second of three, I follow step-by-step procedures to 1) Validate Failover of a 3 Node Cluster Configuration, and 2) Installation of a Clustered DTS Service in preparation for the SQL 2008 Failover Configuration. The 3 Node Cluster will be used to Install and Configure SQL 2008 Failover Clustering Services....