Ask 10 people 'What is high availability?' and you might get 15 different answers. For the purposes here, HA will be defined as ensuring SQL Server is operating when and as needed. 'When' takes into ...

Creating compliant failover clusters in the Google Cloud One way to build a fully supported SQL Server FCI for high availability involves using third party SANless failover clustering software.

We have several two-node SQL Server Clusters running in Active-Passive mode. In this mode, the primary service of the SQL Server instance has a startup type of Manual on both cluster nodes.