At my company, we have implemented this cumulative update for a number of recently built instances, standalone and clustered, and there haven't been any reports of issues from any of...

From what I've read, you should be able to move both instances over to node A, successfully run the upgrade on the passive node, now node B, and then fail...

I believe Perry is steering you in the way of choosing to add a new instance, don't "add features" to the existing installation.

The way we handle "clustered" SSRS is the...

Gaius,

In a Windows cluster, the disk will only be available where the disk is currently active. Since the disks are part of the SQL Server application within the cluster,...

As you mention, the SAN companies have combated the the issue with larger caches, and to my knowledge, my company solely uses RAID 5 in all SAN arrays. We...

You could do that, but then you'd have a one-node failover cluster installed. And, the storage on the back-end would still be seen by the evicted node. So,...

What service account are you using for the publication? Since you can get it working on DB1 on server1, it sounds like the service account might be set to...

Somewhat old for an urgent issue, but did you actually try to telnet port 5022 on both the primary and secondary servers to make sure they can communicate with each...

Gail and Pradeep are correct.

For your situation, you'd likely want to look toward replication, and you can exclude deletes within the configuration of the publication. It's more involved to...

Do you have the failover partner specified in the application connection string? What source is bring provided for where the login is failing?

Is the application reporting a login failure...

Found another post discussing this.. doesn't seem to have a solid answer there either.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic982141-391-1.aspx

One recommendation I saw there was to remove the endpoint from the witness, and then...

I would think you should be able to pick a brief maintenance window, take your application offline, point your application connections over to the secondary instance (the log shipped instance),...

I'm curious to know what solutions people provide for this as well. We are getting more into replication, and trying to use P2P so we can go with active-active...

I'm not an SSAS guru by any means, but I believe it'd be handled similar to how you'd do that with the Database Engine.

You'll likely need to install new instances...

I echo what Ed stated. Not entirely sure how a CTP made it's way into production. We generally don't even touch the new product releases until a few...