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 ...

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 ...

The chapter includes; the new features associated with failover clustering for both SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, it then covers step-by-steps on implementing a two node single instance ...

I’m a huge fan of server virtualization for mixed purpose hosting. It’s not a perfect fit for every situation but it’s very versatile. The portability of guest operating systems adds some level of ...

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 ...

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Title is self explanatory. I need to set up a 3 machine cluster that will have local storage on each node. These machines will be doing print serving, dhcp, and AD(not in the cluster). I can't find a ...

Running a bunch of hyper-v virtual machines that matter? You’ll want a high availability cluster. Of course you’ll also want to take backups of those VMs as well. Prior to moving your VMs into the HA ...