Super, thanks very much for your help.

Thanks gentlemen for your advices. It's amazing that Windows 2008 could be clustered using VMs. I was afraid that the OS would be very picky about hardware requirement.

As for the...

Worked perfectly.

Thanks very much for your help.

Thank you very much for your quick replies. I think I know pretty well the back up strategy (full, differential, log). I wanted to know more about the practical experience...

How about back up on Server 1 and Restore on Server 2?

Sorry I was not clear enough. I meant the local SQL Server on my laptop. Based on your answer, I can then go ahead.

Is it OK to install SQl Server 2005 final on my laptop?

Our current production environment is VS.NET 2003 and SQL Server 2000. I would like to install SS2005 to play...