Microsoft expands support for virtualized SQL Server failover clusters. The announcement is a shift from what the company told its database customers last year.

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Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) is a feature that has been standard since SQL Server 7 running on what was then called Microsoft Cluster Server available on Windows NT 4.0. FCIs afford two ...

The SQL1 and SLQ2 failover cluster instances use standard Windows Server 2016 images with SQL Server pre-installed, but the SQL Server software will need to be re-installed as a clustered instance ...

As I'm preparing to deploy a new 2-node SQL Server 2014 Standard failover cluster, I'm considering what would be the best way to set up its storage. For the ...

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 ...

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SQL Server Failover Clustering is built upon the Microsoft Server Clustering Services (MSCS) on Windows so since W2K8 Server supports 16 node clustering so does SQL Server 2008.

To provide high availability and disaster protection for SQL Server in the cloud, you may also want to configure a failover cluster with nodes in different geographically separate areas (e.g., AWS or ...