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 mode ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Okay, here's the deal, we accidently got SQL Server 2000 the normal one, not the Enterprise Edition sucker. Does anybody know if it's possible to get clustering working with it? All the white papers I ...

Intel ESAA gives resellers and direct Intel OEMs access to a wide range of pre-validated configuration guides (“recipes”) jointly developed by Intel and independent hardware and software vendors (IxVs ...

Database virtualization vendor Xkoto has its eye on enhancing cloud computing and cluster management for Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2. The company released GridScale 5.1, the latest version of its ...

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 ...

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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 ...