About two months ago, I began planning a cluster migration for one of our primary SQL Server 2005 clusters to newer hardware, and a simultaneous upgrade to SQL Server 2008 SP1.  The old system runs Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise, 32-bit, with 4 dual-core CPUs and 16GB of RAM.  The new system runs Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, ...

Sorry I have been quiet recently; been working very hard for the past two weeks on a migration of an old, tried SQL Server 2005 database to a brand new 2008 cluster with faster SAN undercarriage, double the memory and twice as many CPUs.  I'll blog more about that later, because other than a few user errors, the whole process was actually ...