Unfortunately, when I tried to configure failover clustering with Windows Server 2008, the initial clustering verification test and installation failed indicating that Windows Server 2008 could not ...

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 ...

I just ran into a...thing I didn't realize existed. My goal is to have a failover cluster hosting SQL instances. I'd like the SQL virtual names to be in aa subdomain, <instance>.sql.mydomain.com, but ...

The trickiest thing about making a stretched cluster work with Hyper-V is getting the underlying storage to work properly. Although Hyper-V can easily function on a standalone server (or even on a ...

I'm trying to troubleshoot some errors being generated by our HyperV cluster, and I'm getting a bit of a headache. Every 15 minutes from the year dot, one of the nodes has generated four Event 1207 ...

Brien details the pros and cons of Hyper-V replication versus clustering, and what scenarios work best for each method. For several years now, I have been using Hyper-V's replication feature to ...

Oracle has updated the commercial edition of its MySQL database for Windows, adding a graphical installer and the ability to do failover clustering, the company announced Tuesday. Both of these ...

Redis is an open-source, in-memory database that offers plenty of features and more than enough performance to power your enterprise-level app or service. Recently, I wrote about deploying Redis on a ...

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 ...