DB & CI - MSCS Active-Active Cluster configuration.

Hi all,
I could find several solutions searching for posts about Clustering, but am still having doubts.
We are going to install servers for our erp application - SAP. One server shall be DB server (Database) and another CI server (Content). OS - Windows Server 2003 -R2, Enterprise Edition and SQL 2005.
We want to have both these servers to be clustered as Active-Active. Going through the posts, Active-Active does not seem to be recommended from microsoft compared to Active-Passive cluster.
Can someone please guide about this ?
Also if someone can please provide link - how to configure Active-Active cluster in Windows server 2003 for SAP servers. Sort of step-by-step guide if available ?
Thanks in advance.
Kalpesh

Hi,
You don't tell us which SAP ERP product you want to be clustered...
ECC is different from R/3 for this matter...
SAP MSCS Clusters are active-active in the way that each node has its own role in nominal configuration (no fail over).
SAP MSCS clusters are Active-PAssive in the way that tha database or SAP components run on only one single node.
For ECC6, you have SQL server running on one node and the SCS running on the other node.
If you want to really use the cpus of the second node, you can install the CI (which is in fact the first DI) on the second node.
For MSCS, you have to follow the configuration explained in the SAP installation guide. Otherwise your system will not be supported.
Regards,
Olivier

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