3.4.3 MxDB for SQL Server Installation and Administration Guide

Install SQL Server

This chapter describes how to install SQL Server 2000 or 2005 instances

and Service Packs and certain SQL Server 2000 hotfixes.

SQL Server Installation Overview

Prerequisites

Before installing SQL Server, the following prerequisites should be met:

• PolyServe Matrix Server must be installed on each node. You will also

need to create PSFS cluster filesystems to store the SQL databases. If

you will be using a PSFS filesystem created under Matrix Server 3.2 or

earlier, you will need to enable sparse files on the filesystem. Use the

following command to do this. (In the command, <device> can be a

drive letter, a mount point, or a psd or psv name.)

psfscheck --enable-sparse <device>

• Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) must not be installed.

• The Microsoft .NET Version 2.0 framework must be installed on all

nodes.

• If you will be installing SQL Server 2000 instances and SQL Server

2005 instances on the same node, the SQL Server 2000 instances

(including SP4) must be installed first.