Applying Service Pack on multiple instance SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster and Standalone.

Friends,
Its my first time I am applying Service pack to both Standalone and Clustered SQL 2008 R2 servers. I have multiple instances running on both stand alone and Clustered environment. I don't know how to apply pack with multiple instances. Do I need to apply
the service pack each instance one by one or I can just run the pack to each node of cluster and each box of stand alone server? Will I get any multi instance selection option during the installation process so that I can select multiple instances at once??

When installing service pack for multiple instances in a standalone machine, you just run the installer and it lists all the instances eligible for the update. You could do it one by one or do it at the same time. Doing it at the same time saves time and
energy. If you selected multiple instances then you dont have to do anything else.
In case of cluster, if you have multiple instances then you need to be little careful.
Eg: Assume you have a 2 node cluster Node 1 and Node 2. Two instances Instance 1 active on Node 1 and Instance 2 active on Node 2. What I would do in this case is to first failover any one instance to the passive node. Assume I failed over Instance 2 to
Node 1. Now Node 1 is active node for both instance 1 and instance 2 and Node 2 is passive for both instances. At this point I run the service pack on Node 2. Once patching is done, I reboot the node and then failover the instaces one by one to Node
2. At this point both instances 1 and 2 would get upgraded and will be active in Node2. Now Node 1 is passive and so run the update there. Once the service pack is installed, reboot and then fail back Instance 1 back to Node 1. Note: I would also failover
Instance 2 to Node 1 just to confirm that failover works completely after service pack update.
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