Allen White

Cluster Upgrade Complete

Well, after all the interesting things encountered along the way of testing the cluster upgrade, the actual upgrade itself went quite smoothly and gave me no errors. I also applied SQL Server 2005 SP1 to the servers, and it updated both servers in the cluster, which saved me some time.

I went into Configuration Manager afterward to change the service accounts to a least-privileged user and noticed that the Integration Services service was NOT running on the virtual server, but on the physical server. A quick Google search to http://www.sql-server-performance.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11522 confirmed this.

I changed the service accounts to the non-admin user and restarted the server and it's performing quite well.

Wish me luck tomorrow - I'm running the Derby Festival Marathon in Louisville, Kentucky. (We get to run on the infield at Churchill Downs between the 8 and 9 mile mark!) Derby Festival Marathon

Allen

P.S. One of the BI developers in my office pointed me to these links, which explain how to set up SSIS as a clustered service:
How to: Configure Integration Services on a Cluster
Making SSIS a Clustered Service
Thanks, Mike!