64 bit Edition and 32bit Participate in VIRTUALSQL Cluster

Does anybody know if you can mix x64 and Itanium editions?

No, absolutely not.

Itanium and x64 are differenct processor architectures. Software that uses low level services has to be written for one or the other and cannot operate on both.

Granted, there is some software that may easily execute on both -but SQL Server is NOT able to execute on both.

|||Just to be clear I was asking if an x64 and an Itanium could participate in a cluster together.. not if the software would run of the respective machines?|||

There would be no point in clusting an x64 and Itanium machine together as the needed software wouldn't be able to run on both nodes.

Because the installers would be different you woulnd't be able to install SQL on the cluster.

Machines which are in a cluster should be of the same hardware architechurer.

64 Bit and 32 Bit Reporting Servers in same web farm

Can I mix 64 Bit and 32 Bit Reporting Servers in same web farm? I currently have a distributed environment with 2 32 Bit Web Servers and a 32 Bit Reporting Services Database server. I would like to add 64 Bit web servers to this configuration. Are there any issues with this?

This wasn't really a tested scenario, but I think in theory it should work. I mean I don't see anything in the RS product code that prevents you from doing so. It's always interesting when a theory is put to test though :).

If you decide to go down this route, let us know any problems you find.