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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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Implementation of the Windows Server Failover Cluster – Basic guide with all recommended steps
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we will use the new cluster to host our VMs in the cloud series. Implementation overview Steps to create Failover Cluster for Hyper-V or SQL Server Steps that I always have on my mind… Configure network interfaces. Add all future nodes into domain. […]