Thanks for the advice ... your explanation in step 3 was exactly what I was thinking of doing. When you say ignore the Master, System database ... is this a...

Quite honestly, most of these decisions were already made before I started on this project ... so I'm pretty much stuck with this solution and I need to run with...

I will be using Steeleye Datakeeper to do the clustering of SQL 2008 ... it does not require shared storage. See below.

http://clusteringformeremortals.com/2009/09/15/step-by-step-configuring-a-2-node-multi-site-cluster-on-windows-server-2008-r2-%E2%80%93-part-1/

Servers are identical ... Prod box has a locally attached SSD array, Second server has locally attached SAS Array ... Total DB size is 220GB.

If I can get the down...