After choosing the appropriate mode, click Continue to begin the installation. The next window informs you that this installation will take a few minutes. Typically, this installation takes longer than a few minutes, so be patient. When the installation is complete, click Finish to complete the process. Verifying and testing the installation
Now that you have completed the installation, you can test to verify that it's been configured properly. Your first step is to open Cluster Administrator and make sure that the following resources have been created:
- SQL IP Address
- SQL Network Name
- SQL Server
- SQL Server Agent
- SQL Server Fulltext
Installing on multiple nodes
If you are running SQL Server 2000 in an active/active configuration, you must install SQL Server 2000 on the second node once you finish installing SQL Server 2000 on the first node. However, you must create a named instance of SQL Server on the second node because SQL Server is allowed to have only one default instance per server (and remember that a cluster is seen as a single virtual server). Also, during the installation, you will be required to choose a disk on the disk array to install the named instance of SQL Server 2000. Choose a disk that is different from the first disk you used to install SQL Server 2000 on the first node. You cannot share the same disk when configuring an active/active configuration. Test away
You should now have a working clustering environment for all of your testing needs. Moving forward, you can also use many of these same principles to add more shared disks to cluster IIS, File and Print Services, and Exchange Server 2000 in your testing environment.
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