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 ...

We plan to implement a 2-node MS SQL 2000 or 2005 cluster and I need to know the requirements.Here are some info that I gathered:* Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter Edition* SQL 2000 ...

The general plan, given their size, is for two nodes with shared storage. For the virtualization platform, the decision between vSphere (Essentials Plus, I'd assume) and the latest Hyper-V is a ...

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.

Failover Cluster holds utmost importance in a production environment. If you have configured WSFC in the environment, and for some reason, a node goes down, there will be a backup node ready to ...