For step-by-step instructions on installing a SQL Server 2008 single instance or multiple instance failover cluster on Windows Server 2008 reference – Chapter 12 “Implementing and Managing ...

End of the day, On-site Datacenter to Azure DR failover and failback for $27/month per VM! Rand is a Microsoft ... SharePoint, SQL, Windows Server, Windows Client, System Center, and Lync.

If you have a passive secondary server for failover from a production SQL Server workload (like ... support is to run them in a virtual machine on Azure, where you get free ESUs for three years ...

The different offerings inside Microsoft’s Azure cloud services get updated pretty frequently, with the latest component to get improvements being Azure SQL ... failover to a second server ...

Azure Dedicated Host will support Windows, Linux and SQL Server virtual machines and pricing is per ... to have multiple dedicated hosts for your failover strategy anyway. Frederic was with ...

Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud. It's important to choose the right VM size and configure your storage properly to keep SQL Server workloads running smoothly.

Learn More. Microsoft has done a 180-degree turn and decided to support failover clustering for SQL Server running in a virtual machine. “Last October I posted on our updated policy for support ...