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| George 2006-03-06, 7:16 pm |
| Do I need to purchase 2 lic of SQL server to cluster in active pasivein a 2
node configuration.
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| Licensing for a Failover Cluster Configuration
If your organization uses SQL Server 2000 in a failover cluster
configuration, this means servers are clustered together to pick up each
others' processing if one computer fails, in this situation, you have
special licensing considerations. This option is only available in SQL
Server 2000 Enterprise Edition.
Failover clustering support can be configured two ways:
. Active/Active. This option allows all servers in the failover
cluster to regularly process information. When a server fails, one server or
more takes on the additional workload of the failed server.
. Active/Passive. This option is characterized by at least one server
in the cluster that do not regularly process information, but waits to pick
up the workload when an Active server fails.
All Active servers in a cluster must be fully licensed, with either
Processor Licenses or Server Licenses. However, if a server is strictly
Passive, and works only when an Active server has failed, no additional
licenses are needed for that Passive server. The exception to this is if the
failover cluster is licensed under Processor License, and the number of
processors on the Passive server exceeds the number of processors on the
Active server. In this case, additional Processor licenses must be purchased
for the additional processors on the Passive computer.
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Do I need to purchase 2 lic of SQL server to cluster in active pasivein a
> 2
> node configuration.
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