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.

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud Topics Spotlight: Advancing IT Leadership ...

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 ...

SQL Server Failover Clustering is built upon the Microsoft Server Clustering Services (MSCS) on Windows so since W2K8 Server supports 16 node clustering so does SQL Server 2008. However, as always ...

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, ...

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.