Recently organizations, fellow SQL Server MVPs and DBAs have asked me for resources on how to install a SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster from both a SQL Server and a Windows Server 2008 perspective.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 17, 2015) - SIOS Technology Corp. (www.us.sios.com), maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced Microsoft Clustering MVP and SIOS Senior ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you want reliability, you go with clustering. If you want performance, you find bottlenecks and fix them rather than throwing hardware at it. Generally speaking, anyway.<BR>SQL Server 2005 does ...