Clustering

Is Azure SQL Highly Available?

Is Azure SQL highly available? Spoiler alert... Yes, Azure SQL has automated high availability.

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How Would Microsoft Design a Scale-Out File Server: Disks, Networking, and More

Discover how disks, networks, servers, and Storage Bricks play a part in designing a SOFS in part 2 of this series.

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How Would Microsoft Design a Scale-Out File Server?

WWMSD? Ever wonder how Microsoft would design a SOFS for storage over SMB 3.0 networking with transparent failover? Find out more in part 1 of this series.

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Creating a Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster Shared Volume

Are you down with CSV? Find out more about Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) and learn to create one in this introduction.

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Windows Server Failover Clustering: Why Cluster Quorum Matters

Got a handle on cluster quorums? Find out about the function of quorums in Window Server Failover Clustering in this helpful post.

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Windows Server 2012 Scheduled Cluster Tasks

Want to schedule against the cluster, instead of a per-server job? Learn about scheduled cluster tasks in WS2012 and how to implement them.

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Windows Server Failover Cluster Validation

Need to validate a Windows Server failover cluster? Find out what makes a supported cluster and learn to validate a Windows Server cluster configuration.

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Naming Standards in a Window Server Cluster

What’s in a name? Learn to standardize the naming of Windows failover cluster components in this helpful how-to article.

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Windows Server 2012 or WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster Requirements

Building a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster? Not so fast, friend. Learn about what you need to build that cluster in this article.

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Redirected I/O in Windows Server 2012/R2 Cluster Shared Volumes

In this article, learn how redirected I/O has changed in Windows Server 2012/R2, and how you can control what networks it is used on.

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