Need to add additional NIC to SQL cluster - to enable team..

Hi

I have 2 questions, but related!

We currently have a Windows 2000 Adv server running SQL Ent 2000 as a 2 node
cluster.

Each node currently has 2 NICs installed, one NIC for the local heartbeat
and the other for the LAN connection.

We now need to add another NIC to each cluster node for failover resillience
on the LAN connection.

The idea is to add the extra NIC, so that we can implement teaming on 2
NICs.

1.What needs to be done to the cluster in order to achieve this and ensure
that the cluster still functions as per normal.

2. The installed NIC has 2 ports, so i assume that additional NIC purchased
may be different, my guess is that teaming different type NIC cards is not a
good idea, therefore i would like to reconfigure for the teaming to be on
the NIC with the 2 ports and the heartbeat on the newly purchased NIC. - Is
this a big job- what needs to be carried out in order to achive this!!!

Cheers Ray

Answers below...

Cheers,

Rod

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<Ray> wrote in message
 > Hi
 >
 > I have 2 questions, but related!
 >
 > We currently have a Windows 2000 Adv server running SQL Ent 2000 as a 2
 > node
 > cluster.
 >
 > Each node currently has 2 NICs installed, one NIC for the local heartbeat
 > and the other for the LAN connection.
 >
 > We now need to add another NIC to each cluster node for failover
 > resillience
 > on the LAN connection.
 >
 > The idea is to add the extra NIC, so that we can implement teaming on 2
 > NICs.
 >
 > 1.What needs to be done to the cluster in order to achieve this and ensure
 > that the cluster still functions as per normal.

A properly configured TEAM is not seen by the cluster. In other words, its
seamless. It just works like a single NIC and the Cluster is never the wiser
Cool huh?

 >
 > 2. The installed NIC has 2 ports, so i assume that additional NIC
 > purchased
 > may be different, my guess is that teaming different type NIC cards is not
 > a
 > good idea, therefore i would like to reconfigure for the teaming to be on
 > the NIC with the 2 ports and the heartbeat on the newly purchased NIC. -
 > Is
 > this a big job- what needs to be carried out in order to achive this!!!
 >

Take everything offline - cluster services and all resources. Change the
IP's on the NIC - on each node. Do a few ping tests to verify things are
working. Start the cluster service and use "." to start the Cluster
Administrator.

Use these for information:
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Good luck, its really not that bad.


 > Cheers Ray