Creating a Failover Cluster in the Windows server ensures high availability and reliability for apps and services. In this article, we will explain how to create a failover cluster in Windows Server, ...

Failover Cluster holds utmost importance in a production environment. If you have configured WSFC in the environment, and for some reason, a node goes down, there will be a backup node ready to take ...

One of the main sticking points with learning Hyper-V is getting your head around the Clustered Shared Volumes technique to provide .VHD files on a SAN to multiple Hyper-V hosts. The CSV technique is ...

One of the really great things about Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is that it removes the requirement for shared storage. Microsoft recommends the use of a cluster shared volume ...

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 ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

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 ...

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 ...