I"m playing around with setting up a HV failover cluster with two hosts and iSCSI shared storage. I think I have everything setup correctly with an iSCSI target set as a quorum disk and two other ...

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 ...

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 ...

Redis is an open-source, in-memory database that offers plenty of features and more than enough performance to power your enterprise-level app or service. Recently, I wrote about deploying Redis on a ...

I just ran into a...thing I didn't realize existed. My goal is to have a failover cluster hosting SQL instances. I'd like the SQL virtual names to be in aa subdomain, <instance>.sql.mydomain.com, but ...

Even though Hyper-V's replica feature does not provide true high-availability the way that a failover cluster does, you can use your replica infrastructure to minimize the disruption caused by the ...

A key distinction in the realm of disaster recovery is the one between failover and failback. Both terms describe two sides of the same coin, complementary processes that are often brought together.