I would leave them on the same instance if you've not seeing any performance issues to save extra administration.

If you are having issues then it would might be worth installing...

Sorry, just re-read your post.. I see you've already tried that!

I would try taking a new snpahot and re-sync'ing with the subscriber.

I didn't know you could do it that either, but saying that, you can only do it that way if you have the option of restarting your sql service which...

Sounds about right. To confirm, I would;

- remove mirroring

- remove the mirrored db in recovery

- restore a copy of the primary db on the new luns with no recovery

- resume...

As a test, have you tried creating a sql account on server B and using that for the linked server authentication ?

Following on from the last post, insert a tracer token to see if the latency is between the publisher / distributor, or the distributor / subscriber.

Thanks for the responses chaps.

I'll have a look around, starting with McAfee. We currently use Sophos in our environment, which for some reason or another doesn't support active-active clusters, hence...

What happens when you try to reinitialize the subscription through replication monitor ?

We use Quest Spotlight and I think it's excellent.. I'm sure you can get trial downloads to see what suits you best.

I've just had a look through the other forums and I've re-posted to one more relevant to my question.

Try attaching and dettaching in 2005 before trying 2008 again.

If you try to shrink the log through SSMS how much free space does it say is available ?

Have you tried taking a tlog backup before performing the SHRINKFILE command ?

I'd double check the services have started.