A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2. The study compares ...

AlwaysOn encompasses high-availability and disaster recovery technologies that are also available in SQL Server 2012, including failover ... and Windows Azure Virtual Machines, database backups ...

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 ...