I'm currently trying to develop a SQL cluster for our production databases. One of my goals is to make it possible to load balance the databases without needing to reconfigure the client. Also it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guys I would like to build a sql 2005 cluster I would like to use a combination of microsoft clustering and database mirroring. These sql servers will be deployed in a virtual esx 3.5 environment ...

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 ...

Database virtualization vendor Xkoto has its eye on enhancing cloud computing and cluster management for Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2. The company released GridScale 5.1, the latest version of ...

The SQL1 and SLQ2 failover cluster instances use standard Windows Server 2016 images with SQL Server pre-installed, but the SQL Server software will need to be re-installed as a clustered instance ...

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.