cluster shutdown

I have a Compaq DL380 G2 package cluster.
Prior to the Hurricane (scare) for the Houston area, all servers and the
cluster were shutdown/powered down.
I am looking for the proper shutdown/powerup procedure for the cluster.
We had a hard time getting the cluster to be recognized by the server.
Make sure your Domain Controllers and network switches are up and running
before powering up the cluster. The disk array starts first, then one host
node. Take all resource roups except the quorum group offline after the
first node is up. Bring up the second node only after the first node is
operational . Make sure the disk resources and IP addresses shift
correctly, then bring the resource groups online on the corret hosts.
Geoff N. Hiten
Senior Database Administrator
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
"Harold Clemons" <harold@.hal-pc.org> wrote in message
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>I have a Compaq DL380 G2 package cluster.
> Prior to the Hurricane (scare) for the Houston area, all servers and the
> cluster were shutdown/powered down.
> I am looking for the proper shutdown/powerup procedure for the cluster.
> We had a hard time getting the cluster to be recognized by the server.
>

Cluster access using IP

I joined a company as a DBA
the company has cluster servers set up.
I was given the 3 ip addresses. i for the cluster and 2 for for the ones the
cluster is made up of. and my login is set up to use SQL Server
Authentication.
How do i connect to the server. I do not know if they are active/active or
active/passive. I do not have any rights on the local boxes for me to telnet
them.
What is the way to connect to the database
what is the default instance that SQl server creates.
thanks a lots in advance
Connect to the address of the SQL Virtual Server, not just the cluster
address or the address of either machine (node).
Cheers,
Rod
MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
"Nik" <patelnikhil30@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I joined a company as a DBA
> the company has cluster servers set up.
> I was given the 3 ip addresses. i for the cluster and 2 for for the ones
> the
> cluster is made up of. and my login is set up to use SQL Server
> Authentication.
> How do i connect to the server. I do not know if they are active/active or
> active/passive. I do not have any rights on the local boxes for me to
> telnet
> them.
> What is the way to connect to the database
> what is the default instance that SQl server creates.
> thanks a lots in advance
>