PowerShell is a good tool for executing queries against many servers. I'm not...

Ok, I see. Yes, the DifferentialBaseLsn has changed.

This reaffirms the issue that the SAN snapshot is imitating the behavior...

I'm not really sure what you mean by that. Changing the LSN of what specifically?

My understanding is the DIFFERENTIAL decides what to back up based on whether...

Thanks for the suggestion. However, there's no option in their console for anything like that and no hint of...

Fair enough. I did word that poorly.

I didn't mean literally the presence of the record in the backupset table rendered the subsequent DIFF's useless. I just meant the act of...

I understand this thread is over a year old, but I thought I'd leave some more information for the next person...

I'm working through this issue right now. We purchased an...

Interesting thought, Elliot, you're suggesting it did in fact try Named Pipes first, but failed and then went on to TCP/IP. Perhaps. However, that wouldn't explain how I connect when...

Thanks for the response Elliot.

I do understand the Shared Memory protocol - I disabled it in an effort to understand the affects of changing these Client Protocols.

I am also...

Agreed.

I'm on my home machine now -...

Thanks for the response Jack.

I completely understand the network settings. It's the client settings I'm confused about.

That BOL explanation makes sense and that's how I was initially thinking about...

Yes, we are using the MS iSCSI Initiator to connect to the SAN. The machine is a Dell PE2950 with Broadcom NIC's, so we are using the Broadcom Advanced Control...

I think you hit it on the head. I came across a few different posts indicating a cluster will use 1 NIC per subnet and ignore the rest. Indeed on...

Interesting that you said I may need to create another VLAN. Because on my other cluster, both connections (1 out to LAN and 1 back to storage) are teamed and...

Thanks for the reply.

I do not make the decisions about the OS, though, I believe we have not moved to 2008 because of licensing costs.

As for adding the NIC as...

Glad that helped.

When SSIS first came out I bought the book Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services by Wrox. It was good for me, it gave me the jump start...