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Building Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances – Part 4 – Install first node
This article is not part of the System Center Cloud series but we will use the final product to host System Center database instances. Low-level design Service accounts, user accounts and groups SQL DB Servers – Service accounts sercontsqlfcic0cm0a Service account: SQL Server Agent Member Of Domain Users sercontsqlfcic0cm0d Service account: SQL Server Database Services (Database […]
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Building Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances – Part 3 – Configure storage and mount points
This article is not part of the System Center Cloud series but we will use the final product to host System Center database instances. Configure storage We somehow need to configure path to the cluster disks where SQL server instances will store the data. We can assign drive letter to each disk or we can assign mount point. […]
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Building Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances – Part 2 – Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC)
This article is not part of the System Center Cloud series but we will use the final product to host System Center database instances. Install guest (virtual) failover cluster Please continue to the Building guest (virtual) failover cluster series to learn how to create guest cluster from the virtual machines. Prerequisites Cluster: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 […]
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Building Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances – Part 1 – Design
It is not always easy to divide Low-level Design and High-Level Design. How to differentiate between high-level and low-level design depends on the entity that we refer to. When we need to design our cloud then high-level decision could be choice of the technology that makes our SQL Servers highly-available. But when we talk about our […]
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Building guest (virtual) File Server Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2
Install guest (virtual) failover cluster Please continue to the Building guest (virtual) failover cluster series to learn how to create guest cluster from the virtual machines. Prerequisites Cluster: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Two nodes Failover Clustering Storages Witness disk: One disk on a shared VHD or VHDX virtual disk Cluster disks: One or more disks […]