Understanding Microsoft Cluster Service (MCCS) Clustering for SharePoint's SQL Database
Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise support the shared-nothing cluster model. In a shared-nothing cluster each node of the cluster owns and manages its local resources and provides nonsharing data services. In case of a node failure, the disks and services running on the failed node fail over to a surviving node in the cluster. However, with high availability clustering, only one node is managing one particular set of disks and services at any given time.
SQL 2000 on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise can support up to four cluster nodes, whereas Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition can support up to eight nodes within a single cluster. Failover ...
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