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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…
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Building guest (virtual) Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 2 – Install and configure cluster
Prerequisites of Failover Clustering Domain join Join to the domain. PowerShell $domain = ‘ad.contoso.com’ $userName = ‘UserWithPermissionsToAddComputerIntoDomain’ $password = ‘Your-Password’ | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force $login = ‘{0}\{1}’ -f $domain, $userName $credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($login, $password) Add-Computer -DomainName $domain -Credential $credential -Restart Configure storage Online all disks on all nodes. Initialize and format disks on one…
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Building guest (virtual) Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 1 – Create virtual machines
This article will guide you through how to build guest (virtual) cluster using Hyper-V on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. Functional Failover Clustering is the first step before installation of clustered File Server or AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance on Microsoft SQL Server etc. You can use this guide on a single Hyper-V host or on the Hyper-V…
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