Ars Technica

Failover cluster - Disk witness in quorum, how to migrate it ?

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 ...
Ars Technica

Failover cluster nodes do not have same software updates

I get a warning in the Microsoft Failover Clustering Services validation tool stating "The servers do not all have the same software updates". All of the nodes are identical and are running Windows ...
Redmond Magazine

8-Node Clustering Coming in Windows .NET Enterprise Server

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, ...
dbta

Clustering for SQL Server High Availability

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 ...
Redmond Magazine

Using Hyper-V's Storage Resource Pools with Stretched Clusters

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 ...