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 ...

I have a bit strange situation, detailed bellow. Setup is two node failover cluster with Server 2012R2 installed on both nodes and SQL server 2012sp1 is running as clustered service. Everything is ...

Every couple of months it seems like this one cluster in particular randomly tells one of the blade modules to go into a zombie state where it responds to pings yet nothing else. To the other blades, ...

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 ...

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to set up a Redis cluster for database high availability and automatic failover. Redis is an open-source, in-memory database that offers plenty of features and ...

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 ...

Learn how failover clustering supports high availability in modern private cloud and datacenter environments. Get an early look at the Windows Server clustering roadmap, including update orchestration ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...