Definitely, failover clustering is a hot topic within the SQL community – specifically if you are trying to obtain high availability and minimize data loss. My latest title SQL Server 2008 Management ...

So last night I was building a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a virtual environment with Windows Server 2008 on the free version of VMware Server. When building clusters on VMware, I typically ...

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A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...

I have a bit strange situation, detailed bellow. Setup is two node failover cluster with Server 2012R2 installed on both nodes and SQL server 2012sp1 is running as clustered service. Everything is ...

You are configuring a failover cluster for a Web server. You are assigning four nodes to the cluster. All nodes have access to a SAN and there is adequate space available. Which of the following ...

While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for ...

Databases usually lag behind other servers in moving to new architecture, but containerization brings enough major improvements to convince even the most old-school DBAs. When Microsoft announced back ...

Failover Cluster holds utmost importance in a production environment. If you have configured WSFC in the environment, and for some reason, a node goes down, there will be a backup node ready to take ...