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 ...

Learn to install a SQL Server failover cluster. Create and configure a failover cluster instance by running SQL Server Setup. To install a failover cluster, you must use a domain account with local ...

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 ...

This is an example Vagrant environment for a SQL Server Cluster installation. This deploys a Always On Availability Groups (AG) SQL Server Cluster. In particular, this deploys a Contained Availability ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...