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 ...

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 ...

Anyone running a clustered MS SQL setup on top of vSphere? This will be something new for us, but we have a database that can't go down ever. I remember reading about this in passing a couple of years ...

I've been asked by a friend for some third-party advice on a major IT investment for his small business: their first virtualization cluster. The general plan, given their size, is for two nodes with ...

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 ...

Microsoft will support eight-node failover clusters in Windows .NET Enterprise Server. The decision came months after the Beta 3 release of the Windows .NET Server family editions back in November, ...

The term "cluster" is actually not very well defined and could mean different things to different people. According to Webopedia, cluster refers to a group of disk sectors. Most Windows users are ...

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 ...

Microsoft will support eight-node failover clusters in Windows .NET Enterprise Server. The decision came months after the Beta 3 release of the Windows .NET Server family editions back in November, ...