Right, I'm with you now. Thanks very much for your help. I'll feed this back to the boss and the network guy and see what they have to say.

You wouldn't...

I'm referring to V1 as an example of what i would list in the "SQL Server Network Name" textbox and whether I can use the same value for multiple instances...

Looks like I need to do some more explaining as we're still not on the same wave length.

I have:

Node1 = MachineName1

Node2 = Machine Name2

Network Name = V1

Instance1 = InstanceName1

Instance2 =...

Thanks okbangas, but I don't really understand what problem that causes? Do you mind explaining please?

Thanks for your post.

Yes I'm aware of that re disks, etc being apart of a Resource Group but what I was specifically referring to was say two instances of SQL...

Thanks guys, appreciate your comments.

Do either of you know of any official documentation that supports this, because my boss wants the virtual name the same f or each instnace, and...

Thanks, good to hear that it is as I thought.

Did you see my MSTDC question in the original post? Any comment there?

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated.

bump.

Anyone offer some advice?