Deploying HP SIM 6.x or greater on MSCS clusters on Windows 2003 with SQL Server 2005

Note:

This section assumes that you already have a working two

system cluster

with at least two free logical drives, one for the Microsoft SQL Server 2005

data files

and another for the HP SIM 6.x program files.

Note:

Before installing SQL Server 2005on a failover cluster, Microsoft strongly

recommends that you install and configure Microsoft Distributed Transaction

Coordin

ator (MS DTC) on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003

operating systems.



Failure to cluster MS DTC will not block SQL Server 2005 Setup, but SQL Server 2005 application

functionality may be affected if MS DTC is not properly configured.

To install and configure Microsoft

Distributed Transaction Coordinator complete the following steps:

Click

Start

and then select

Run

Type

Cluadmin

for the Cluster Administrator.

In the Cluster Administrator, right

click

Cluster Group

and

then

select

new



resource

For the name and

description, type

MSDTC

and

then

select

Distributed Transition Coordinator

the resource type.

Figure 2:

New Resource

Click