Failover Clustering in Azure This article discusses the new features in Windows Server 2019 and beyond when creating a Failover Cluster in Azure and how it differs from creation on premises.
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and SAN storage can now operate side-by-side in the same single rack failover cluster - so you can take advantage of S2D speed for some volumes, and SAN features for OTHER volumes. This allows you to run Hyper-V VMs or SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) scenarios on fast S2D storage or on your SANs to take advantage of SAN features like snapshots, backups ...
Greetings again Windows Server and Failover Cluster fans!! John Marlin here and I own the Failover Clustering feature within the Microsoft product team. In this blog, I will be giving an overview of the new features in Windows Server 2022 Failover Clustering. Some of these will be talked about at the upcoming Windows Server Summit. One note that I will say is that this particular blog post ...
Why is clustering aggregation with custom styling useful? Clustering aggregation with custom styling is a useful feature that enhances the user experience and the data analysis. By using clustering aggregation, you can avoid the clutter and overlapping of data points on the map, and get a quick overview of the data distribution and density.
In this blog, I want to talk about Failover Clustering and Networking. Networking is a fundamental key with Failover Clustering that sometimes is overlooked but can be the difference in success or failure. In this blog, I will be hitting on all facets from the basics, tweaks, multi-site/stretch, and Storage Spaces Direct.
Step 2: Enabling Windows Failover Clustering Configuration for SQL Server At this point, proper Active Directory rights are required to configure the Windows Server Failover Cluster. Microsoft provides a complete listing of different Active Directory permissions able to create a Windows Server Failover Cluster.
This article discusses the new features in Windows Server 2019 and beyond when creating a Failover Cluster in Azure and how it differs from creation on...
Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) is the new name for Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS), beginning in Windows Server 2008. In this blog post, I will use WSFC to refer to both.
To explain it a bit, this list is for Windows 2016 and 2019 Failover Clustering. Many of these same events are in previous versions. We have not removed any events, only added with each version. I have separated it into two tabs, one for Windows 2016 and the other for the Windows 2019 new events. There are a few duplicate event IDs. That is by ...
Failover Clustering and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) often use WMI to communicate between cluster nodes, so if there is an issue contacting a cluster node, WMI may be the culprit.
