What I noticed is the SP1 installer is creating some temporary folder and installation files in it. In the middle of the installation all drives are going offline & at...

Do we need to stop the SQL Server services before applying SP1 in Cluster environment? Because , we have only Single node.

So having Node majority quorum makes sense for Single node cluster?

There are NO errors except the below for SP1 failure:

I tried...

NO. As you see my Quorum configuration says Node Majority.

Quorum Configuration: Node Majority - Warning:failure of node will cause the cluster to...

In the Windows 2008 Failover cluster manager click on the cluster name in the left pane. The centre pane will display cluster configuration information the quorum type will be listed...

It is required in a cluster environment to have the SQL binaries on a shared drive. The only thing that resides on the local drives is the Binaries for the...

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We are copying the bak file...

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I have followed the below link where same issue has discussed.

http://sqlserverpedia.com/blog/sql-server-bloggers/failure-when-upgrading-cluster-to-sql-2008-sp1-cu7/

As Shaun Stuart, suggested, I have stopped the SQL Server service and the Agent before installing SQL...

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My only concern in keep SQL binaries on D drive( local). Previously we used...

After my research, came to know that the cluster service no longer runs as a domain account and it did not require to add in local Administrator account.

Question:

Do we need...

Could you please advice me..thanks

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We just build a new single cluster node with Windows 2008.

I have created a resource group called SQL Group. Now there are many option when we right click that...

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I got it.

Thank you for your help...

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SQL Server 2008 set up will take default account name NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE for the Browser service while installation (we cannot change it while installing) and we can change it...