We plan to implement a 2-node MS SQL 2000 or 2005 cluster and I need to know the requirements.<BR><BR>Here are some info that I gathered:<BR><BR>* Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter ...

One of the best new capabilities that Microsoft has introduced with Windows Server 2016 is the ability to upgrade the nodes within a failover cluster without incurring any down time in the process.

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 ...

Title is self explanatory. I need to set up a 3 machine cluster that will have local storage on each node. These machines will be doing print serving, dhcp, and AD(not in the cluster). I can't find a ...

The chapter includes; the new features associated with failover clustering for both SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, it then covers step-by-steps on implementing a two node single instance ...

Installing Compute Cluster means beginning with a head node. Strangely, even though the head node is the beating heart of your computing cluster, MCCS2K3 doesn’t support multimachine fail-over. The ...

Not sure if this post is too deep to be interesting to more than a few of you, but thought I’d at least point to it. If you’ve ever asked yourself “How do I capture an image of a compute node which ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...

In my previous column, I explained how to perform a rolling upgrade on a clustered Hyper-V deployment, taking the servers from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016. Once this process has ...