Be careful were you place that Windows 2003 page file

Denny Cherry — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:00:43 +0000

If you are building a Windows 2003 cluster (yes I know it’s out of support, but so is SQL Server 2000 and lots of people are still using that) you need to be very careful where you put the page file. If you put the page file on local disk there won’t be any problem, but if you put the page file on the SAN for increased performance then any other disks on that same storage bus won’t be able to be clustered.

Nice feature hugh.

When you look for the disks to cluster them in the Cluster Administrator the ones on the shared bus won’t be available, and if you try and cluster them using the cluster.exe command line tool you’ll get “System error 87 has occurred (0×00000057) The parameter is incorrect.”. So move the page file back to local disks, and then you can cluster your SAN storage.

Denny

Thank you Orange County SQL Server Users Group

Denny Cherry — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:05:12 +0000

I’d like to thank the Orange County SQL Server Users Group for having me come and speak at their meeting last week. I had a great time speaking with everyone, and there were a lot of good questions.

If you didn’t have a chance to download the slide deck you can download it here. If any new questions come up, feel free to post them here, or email them to me directly.

Denny

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Be careful were you place that Windows 2003 page file

Thank you Orange County SQL Server Users Group