Thanks Paul, I'll give these a try. I believe the server has SP2 on it, I will verify.

But my question is

"and Bob's your mothers brother"

is this some kind of...

Antares is right about the OS.

Even with one channel I would build it as outlined. You won't gain as much, but the I/O activity Logs vs. Data tends to...

Well we have mostly IBM Shark SANs, we do have a Hitachi and a small EMC.

So far, other than some setup issue's I have found them execellent for...

Sorry, I assumed all SANs are RAID'd so that part of it is taken care of. Our SAN is all RAID 5 or 10.

Although I still don't like the...

We'll have move info later, but it appears our engineering team missed a couple of things on the second machine.

We did test the cluster before installing SQL and...

I'll add one more message from SQL server logs

Resource Manager Creation Failed: Result Code = 0x8004d01c

KlK, MCSE

Further note, and why did I post this in Replication ????

I have since uninstalled SQL, and attempted to install from what will be the Passive side.

All I get is...

Okay I agree with everything here, but what configuration is best when using fiber attached SAN.

I've been working (fighting) with one of the development groups that built a big DB...

Sorry, yes it is an A/P setup with SAN dasd Fiber attached. I believe using the IBM HBA cards but the engineering team handles that.

I was having...

Actually I know where to locate it, I want to script it to export it to another DB, and to a script directory for backup.

KlK, MCSE

Unless your 10 to 20 users are really beating the DB to death with OLAP type stuff that seems way to low.

We have a 15gig DB, with 300ish users,...

Well in a big company there does tend to be compartmentalization. People are (or claim to be) specialized in one area.

I find it very frustrating as I have a...

I wouldn't worry as much about RAID channels, the more the merrier yes, but that is second ary.

The real issue is the logical dives on a RAID set. Here you...

Mainly to get the backups off the server. I perfer to do disk backups, as it minimizes the backup time, and don't know a lot about SQL backups to...

I usually put backups into compressed directories. Not a good a zip, but a lot less CPU, and built in.

KlK, MCSE