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 ...

Prior to performing any of the migration strategies, a parallel Windows Server failover cluster with Windows Server 2016/2012 R2 must be prepared. All nodes comprising [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] failover ...

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Failover Clustering comes with a built-in safeguard to prevent accidental downtime when running the storage tests during validation. If the cluster has any online groups when validation is initiated, ...

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 Server ...

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 ...