I do almost the same most of the time when creating copy of database for reporting or adhoc query or redunduncy for high availability.What usually i do is I setup...

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If we use the passive node for other instance ,wouldnt that make it Active/Active?? Which again might required additional licence for the 2nd node.

I have SQL MAIL on two cluster servers and it works fine.The profile names should be identical on each node of a cluster keep it working even in failover.

Whats the size of Tempdb database,it does initializes tempdb during the failover.I have 4Gb Tempdb and it failsover in 30 seconds..

Thank you very much to all.I talked to Microsoft Rep and he said you can have multiple instances(Virtual Servers) on Primary node in Active/Passive configuration but if I choose to...

I am sorry not the heartbeat connection but as I understand we need different virtual server name.