While SQL Server Standard Edition is limited to two nodes in the cluster, DataKeeper allows you to replicate to a third node in the cloud with a manual recovery process.

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So last night I was building a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a virtual environment with ... could not find a shared storage device on the two nodes of the cluster and the disk bus type ...

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If I ran my Hyper-V VMs on a two-node cluster and a failure occurred, there is no telling when I would notice. I have to confess that I'm not in the habit of checking my infrastructure health on a ...

So, let’s say we have a small environment containing a few nodes, if Node 1 goes down, the failover clustering will detect, and then change the state of Node 2 from passive to active.

Setup is two node failover cluster with Server 2012R2 installed on both nodes and SQL server 2012sp1 ... Long story in my many year saga from the 2009 start of our last infrastructure refresh, ...

How you ensure that your backup SQL Server infrastructure has a copy of all the data that the primary system is using becomes a crucial question in a DR scenario. ... (WFCS) to build out a multi-node ...

Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) is a feature that has been standard since SQL Server 7 running on what was then called Microsoft Cluster Server available on Windows NT 4.0. FCIs afford two ...

All demand for Microsoft failover clustering has pretty much been satisfied by two-node clustering up until now. Microsoft first introduced its Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS), or "Wolfpack", in the ...