SIOS SANless clusters High-availability Machine Learning monitoring
In case you missed it, I held this in depth webinar on cluster quorums. In 30 minutes I go over everything you need to know about quorums, from node majority through Cloud Witness and everything in between. If you have additional questions about quorums post them as a comment on this article. I will be glad to help.
For those who have never been exposed to clustering or just new to clustering in Windows Server 2012 R2, this is the class for you. Symon Perriman (@SymonPerriman), 5nine Software Vice President of Business Development and Elden Christensen, Microsoft Principal Program Manager Lead, live and breathe failover clustering. With such great knowledgeable instructors, this two men would definitely be able to give you some great ideas on your next project or simply give you an alternative view. You can’t ask for any better instructors. Stop what you are doing and watch this RIGHT NOW!
As part of my Clustering 101 Webinar Series I take a look at five options for providing high availability for SQL Server running on VMware. The webinar was recorded and for those interested, you can watch it here here.
http://discover.us.sios.com/asset-reg-webinar-clustering-101-vmware-sql-server.html
Reproduced with permission from https://clusteringformeremortals.com/2015/01/30/clustering-101-five-options-for-sql-server-high-availability-on-vmware/
Azure continues to improve their services. Just in the past week they have announced their new “G-Series” VMs, some of the most powerful VMs offered by any cloud provide. Check out the details here…
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/08/largest-vm-in-the-cloud/
Also, if you have been considering using Azure Disaster Recovery as I describe here, you will be happy to know that you can get a 6 month trial of ExpressRoute for FREE! ExpressRoute will help you connect your on-premise datacenter into Azure with a fast secure connection. Check out the announcement here…
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/12/azure-data-center-migration-just-got-easier/
Reproduced with permission from https://clusteringformeremortals.com/2015/01/15/new-azure-announcements-azure-for-disaster-recovery-and-very-large-vms-azure/
The guys over at the High Availability & Disaster Recovery Virtual Chapter of @SQLPASS invited me to present on Windows Server 10. I discussed Cloud Witness, Storage Replica and Rolling Cluster OS Upgrades. In case you missed the presentation, you can view the recording here.
Reproduced with permission from https://clusteringformeremortals.com/2015/01/13/what-every-sql-server-dba-needs-to-know-about-windows-server-10-sqlpass/