A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

Last month I attended a session on Failover Clustering at the SQL PASS Summit Conference and it was very enlightening. I have not done too much with SQL Server Failover Clustering except in test ...

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 ...

SQL Server Big Data clusters is a big investment from Microsoft into a number of technologies -- and it is clear that taking one of its best-selling enterprise products and building on top of the ...

Some are available from cloud service providers, including as options for PaaS SQL Server offerings. And some are provided by third parties in purpose-built failover clustering software. A common ...

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 ...

We plan to implement a 2-node MS SQL 2000 or 2005 cluster and I need to know the requirements.<BR><BR>Here are some info that I gathered:<BR><BR>* Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter ...

If it's only for the vCenter DB, consider vCenter server heartbeat. It's cheaper than clustering SQL, more flexible, and still very resilient. Plus, it gives you better availability for the ...

The SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters add-on and the PolyBase Scale-Out Groups feature are getting dropped. Microsoft generally wants organizations to plan to switch to SQL Server 2022 ...

If you want to install and configure the Failover Cluster in Windows Server, follow the steps below. Install Failover Cluster Feature Install File and Storage Service on the Storage Server Enable ...