Uninstall SQL virtual server 2005 from cluster

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Uninstall SQL virtual server 2005 from cluster

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dcunningham
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Posted - 2008-06-10 : 17:38:33

Hello All.

I have a failed sql cluster setup on Windows 2003 OS cluster. sql will not uninstall on node 1 because it says the group name was not specified in the template.ini file for the cluster. The OS cluster nodes have been evicted from the cluster. The OS cluster is no longer available to provide a group name for.

SQl uninstall process process is failing because of the error mentioned above.

I want to completely , uninstall SQL server from both nodes,
clean up Windows Server and install just a default instance of SQL server on just one of the machines, The cluster can wait.

Thanks.

tkizer
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Posted - 2008-06-10 : 17:40:25

Have you tried the Windows Install Clean Up tool?

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dcunningham
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Posted - 2008-06-10 : 17:44:16

no. I used the c:\>cluster node nodename /forcecleanup

command and that ran sucessfully on both nodes. Uninstall of SQL server on both nodes have failed.

dcunningham
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Posted - 2008-06-10 : 17:45:52

Is this the tool you are referring to? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

tkizer
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Posted - 2008-06-10 : 17:58:09

Yes. But I don't know if it'll work on a cluster.

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dcunningham
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Posted - 2008-06-10 : 17:58:56

The error Im getting is this:

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup
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SQL Server Setup has determined that the following property was not specified: 'GROUP'. The property specifies the cluster group that contains the SQL Server resources and the disk to which the shared data files are to be written. To proceed, refer to the template.ini and set the property to a valid cluster group name.

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=70381&EvtType=sqlspars%5csqlspars.cpp%40InvokeSqlSetupDllAction%40DwLaunchMsiExec%400x112ed

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BUTTONS:

OK
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dcunningham
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Posted - 2008-06-10 : 18:00:53

The problem is that there is no longer an OS cluster. How can I set the SQL cluster name to get the uninstaller to perform the actions to uninstall?

Thank you for your help and time.

tkizer
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Posted - 2008-06-10 : 18:02:46

I doubt that anyone but Microsoft will be able to help you get this uninstalled properly. It sounds like it's pretty hosed.

Is rebuilding the server an option?

Tara Kizer
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dcunningham
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Posted - 2008-06-10 : 18:13:01

Tara, Thank you for trying. There aren't too many posts in this forum that you haven't helped with. Thanks Again.

kapilbhati
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Posted - 2008-06-11 : 10:00:49

Try http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909967

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