Failover Clustering for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services SQL Server Technical Article Writers: Allan Hirt (Avanade, Inc.) and Dave Whitney (Microsoft) Project Editors: Louis Berner (Microsoft), Tresy Kilbourne (Microsoft) Applies To: SQL Server 2005 Version 1.0 Summary: This white paper is intended mainly for a technical audience and not technical decision makers. It complements the existing documentation around planning, implementing, and administering of a failover cluster that can be found in Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Books Online. To ease the upgrade process for existing users of failover clustering, this white paper will also point out differences in the failover clustering implementation of SQL Server 2005 compared to that of SQL Server 2000. Copyright The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Because Mic
