Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

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 ...

Software plans for making high-end computing jobs less susceptible to system crashes are ratcheting ahead. The niche has some analysts making large growth predictions. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Compaq Computer has selected SteelEye Technology's "clustering" software to help its high-end Linux servers catch up to those running Microsoft Windows, the company is set to announce Wednesday.

Veritas Software Corp. last week announced a set of applications aimed at letting storage administrators cluster their Linux servers and create Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) systems. The ...

Unfortunately, when I tried to configure failover clustering with Windows Server 2008, the initial clustering verification test and installation failed indicating that Windows Server 2008 could not ...

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...

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