If you manage Windows Failover Clusters, you may notice the Cluster.exe CLI command is missing after you install the Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering feature. For years, systems administrators ...

Every cluster network must account for the possibility of individual nodes losing communication to the cluster but still being able to serve requests or access resources. If this were to happen, the ...

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 ...

I have a quick question. For clustering using windows server 2003, do you need to have a physically seperate storage device that the clustered servers connect to? I am about to order the hardware to ...

So last night I was building a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a virtual environment with Windows Server 2008 on the free version of VMware Server. When building clusters on VMware, I typically ...

Recently organizations, fellow SQL Server MVPs and DBAs have asked me for resources on how to install a SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster from both a SQL Server and a Windows Server 2008 perspective.

It used to be that building a usable compute cluster took plenty of money, skills, and space in the datacenter. Although creating the actual applications that run on the cluster can still be difficult ...