Comments on: Configureing DTC in Windows 2008 64 bit clustering with SQL 2008 std 64 bit http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/configureing-dtc-in-windows-2008-64-bit-clustering-with-sql-2008-std-64-bit/ Sun, 19 May 2013 00:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: oceandeep http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/configureing-dtc-in-windows-2008-64-bit-clustering-with-sql-2008-std-64-bit/#comment-57665 oceandeep Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:50:18 +0000 #comment-57665 Thank for the reply. Yes, our replication is just a Push transactional replication.

I came across this link and like to hear your opinion on this. http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/geoffh/archive/2008/07/31/DTC-configuration-for-Windows-2008-SQL-2005-Clusters.aspx

This link is about DTC for SQL 2005 on Windows 2008. Since DTC is tied closely to Windows OS, it should still be relevant to my SQL 2008 configuration(I hope). There is one part that it may suggest a same resource for SQL and DTC setup than you suggest but I guess it is subject for interpretation and like to hear what you think. Please read the whole article and then read the outlined part from the link below.

“……….They suggested creating a DTC resource for each SQL Virtual Instance on a cluster. Put the DTC resource in the targeted SQL group and change the log file to be dependent on a group disk. ……..”

By the way, about the ‘change the log file to be dependent on a group disk’ part, I don’t think it is valid any more in windows 2008 since I don’t find any settings for such change. Please also clarify if you can.

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