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 ...

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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 ...

I get a warning in the Microsoft Failover Clustering Services validation tool stating "The servers do not all have the same software updates". All of the nodes are identical and are running Windows ...

Last month I attended a session on Failover Clustering at the SQL PASS Summit Conference and it was very enlightening. I have not done too much with SQL Server Failover Clustering except in test mode ...

How does Microsoft Cloud Witness differ from traditional failover clusters? In a traditional failover cluster, the nodes use a shared storage resource to maintain quorum. But in a cloud-based scenario ...

I recently set up an Equallogic iSCSI backed 2-node MS cluster. The cluster has several cluster groups that correspond to several volumes on the SAN that contain user data. Each cluster group has 4 ...