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 ...

Software plans for making high-end computing jobs less susceptible to system crashes are ratcheting ahead. The niche has some analysts making large growth predictions. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Last month I attended a session on Failover Clustering at the SQL PASS Summit Conference and it was very enlightening. I have not done too much with SQL Server Failover Clustering except in test mode ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

Clustering software for Windows from Microsoft. It provides rudimentary load balancing and two-node failover, which allows a second server to take over if the first one fails. Cluster Server was ...

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 ...

Here’s another tricky issue you might encounter when working with your Windows Hyper-V cluster. When you first create your cluster, Hyper-V creates a Cluster network name resource for use in ...