Before Installing Failover Clustering [!INCLUDE SQL Server] Before you install a SQL Server failover cluster, you must select the hardware and the operating system on which SQL Server will run. You ...

Always On Failover Cluster Instances (SQL Server) [!INCLUDE SQL Server] As part of the [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] Always On offering, Always On Failover Cluster Instances leverages Windows Server Failover ...

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 ...

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.

My latest title SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration includes a dedicated chapter on how to design and implement a SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering when running on Windows Server 2008.

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 ...

Purpose-built failover clustering solutions are designed to provide HA and DR protection for most applications, including SQL Server databases, running on Windows Server and Linux across public, ...

By using AlwaysOn Failover Clustering and adding SANless software, you can create a cluster that provides high availability protection for the entire SQL Server instance, including all of the system ...

Guest failover clustering is when users create a SQL Server failover cluster inside a virtual machine where the nodes are running as a VM. With the change, Microsoft has extended support for this ...

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 reference, the OS will be Windows ...