Whoo hoo! As you can tell from the image I’m playing with the SCCM 2012 RC next week. (Systems Center 2012 Configuration Manager). Aren’t you jealous? Looking to see what kind of advances it gives us for patch management. I’ll keep you updated as I find stuff. An update on the CA post… still no [...]
Tag Archive 'sql'
So in my previous post I went through the reasons why you might want to use SQL mirroring and how you could possibly sell the added expense to your management. In this post I’m going to cover the actual SQL commands for doing so. There is a wizard you can run through to actually set [...]
So you’ve made the decision that you want to use SQL Mirroring for your DR solution. You have several options for DR for SQL databases: you can use Windows clustering, log shipping, or mirroring. My preference in any scenario is to just use Windows Clustering, but there are reasons why you could go with another [...]
vCloud Director and clustered Guest OS
Posted in VMWare on Dec 2nd, 2011
Just a quick post to try to save some effort here… After a few days of investigation and testing (and speaking to a VMWare consultant) it’s been determined that the current version of vCloud Director does NOT support clustering a guest OS. vCD does not have the ability to create shared disk resources and even [...]
In my previous post I covered the considerations you’d want to make when adding a 3rd node to your existing shared quorum cluster at a new site. Now that you’ve made the decision and are using EMC RecoverPoint with Cluster Enabler (RP/CE) to manage the data replication and management of the disks and are converting [...]
I was supporting a handful of Windows 2008 (non-R2) 2 node clusters with shared quorum disks. Some had SQL 2008 installed and some were just a vendor application that we supported. For the purposes of this article it doesn’t really matter which so we’ll assume we’re talking about SQL 2008. So the existing configuration was [...]