Step 11: Remote Account Information page shows up. Here you just need to provide the password for the domain account you used to launch the Setup wizard from step 2. Make sure the login you used to launch the wizard has administrative permission on all the three clustered nodes for the instance you are operating. Then click Next to proceed.
Step 12: Here you will be asked to provide the password for the existing service account used to run SQL Server service, SQL Agent service and Browser service. Once you fill in the correct password information, click Next.
Step 13: On the Error and User Report Settings page, depending on your company's policy, select either or not to send error reports and usage data to Microsoft, then click Next.
Step 14: Ready to Update page shows up, click Install.
Step 15: Configuring Microsoft SQL Server page will show up, do not click anything, let it run through progress bar.
Step 16: Then a windows explorer navigation window will pop up; here you have to browse through your directory to help the installation wizard to locate SqlRun_SQL.msi. You can find this msi under SQL 2005 installation binary folder ...\disk1\Setup, depending on where you place the SQL 2005 install binary. You can also do a search on SqlRun_SQL.msi under the install binary to find its exact location.
Step 17: Once you successfully locate the SqlRun_SQL.msi, click OK to continue.
Step 18: Don't click on anything, Let the setup wizard do its duty.
Step 19: After a few minutes, you will receive the above warning message that indicates that existing nodes for the SQL 2005 clustered instances are already patched. So you will also need to patch the new node to match rest of the clustered nodes. Click OK to acknowledge.
Step 20: You will see this "Setup Progress" page once Setup Wizard is about to install components on the new node. Do not click anything and wait for its setup progress page.
Step 21: Finally, Setup Wizard has come down to the business of installing all necessary components on the new node. Please wait as it indicates on the page.
*If you are adding two new nodes instead of one new node, the setup wizard will provide a drop down so you can scroll the node and see the install progress on each node, like the below diagram.
The installation procedure to add two new clustered nodes and to add one new clustered node are exactly the same, except that you can scroll the drop-down list of server names to review the installation progress. Below, I will continue to use the screenshot I took for adding one new node to an existing clustered SQL 2005 instance.
Step 22: Keep your fingers crossed and hopefully you can see the Green Check Mark that indicates successful setup of the respective components; below three screenshots display successful progress of the installation.
Step 22: Once you see that all components have the status "setup finished," you can relax and click Next because Setup wizard has successfully install the selected SQL components on the new node.
Step 23: You can review the setup log by clicking the summary log, or clicking Finish to complete the procedure of adding a new node.
Step 24: It's a good practice to recycle your affected servers. Make sure the SQL 2005 clustered instance is back online and healthy after adding the new node. Do not failover the SQL instance to the newly added node just yet.
Conclusion
In the next article, I will continue with how to patch a service pack for a newly added Clustered node.
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