April 16, 2012 at 3:24 am
In the process of building a replacement 2008 R2 failover cluster for an existing SQL 2000 deployment we have used the Developer Edition as a test area. We would like to now make the developer environment the live one. Obviously we can't use a developer edition in the live context.
Is it possible to convert the licence from developer to standard without reinstalling the cluster with the correct edition?
April 16, 2012 at 3:50 am
Developer to Standard is a supported upgrade path (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393(v=sql.105).aspx).
You just have to run the setup to change the edition.
You can do that from the setup GUI[/url] or via command line.
Hope this helps
Gianluca
-- Gianluca Sartori
April 16, 2012 at 4:09 am
Many Thanks Gialuca for the link - unfortunately I see a caveat for clusters - Curses!!
"Changing the edition of a SQL Server 2008 R2 failover cluster is limited. The following edition change scenarios are not supported for SQL Server 2008 R2 failover clusters:
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise to SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer, Standard, or Evaluation.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer to SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard or Evaluation.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard to SQL Server 2008 R2 Evaluation.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Evaluation to SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard."
Cheers for now.
April 16, 2012 at 4:16 am
I'm sorry, I didn't notice that.
Well, I guess you will have to re-install from scratch, then.
Sorry.
-- Gianluca Sartori
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