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Microsoft SQL 2008 Failover Cluster – Part 3

So if you’ve followed all the previous posts you now have a Hyper-V cluster with a SQL Cluster within it. MSDTC has been setup as a highly available service and now its time to install SQL – nearly. Roles and Features Some are added automatically when...

Published 03-16-2010 8:20 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Failover Clustering, Clustering, SQL 2008, SQL, SQL Failover Cluster

Microsoft SQL Failover Cluster – Part 2 - MSDTC

Over the last few posts I have detailed how I setup our Hyper-V cluster with a mixture of text posts and videos and then talked about my plan for a SQL failover cluster within the Hyper-V environment The next stage of this journey was to create the SQL...

Published 03-15-2010 4:20 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, SQL 2008, SQL, SQL Failover Cluster, MSDTC

Microsoft SQL Failover Cluster – Part 1

If you’ve been reading the blog then you will have seen the videos I posted on setting up a Microsoft Hyper-V failover cluster. The next step in our plan was to create a Microsoft SQL failover cluster within the Hyper-V cluster. Sounds strange,...

Published 03-10-2010 4:25 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 R2, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, iSCSI, SQL 2008, SQL, SQL Failover Cluster

Microsoft Hyper-V Clustering – Final Design

After months of trials and rebuilding of network designs and servers I have finally settled on a design for my Hyper-V clustering setup. The diagram below shows 1 Hyper-V server (we have 5 in total) and the network connections plus the 4 other physical...

Published 03-08-2010 7:04 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, HyperV, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V

Hyper-V Clustering – Live Migration

This is the final video of the series which shows the live migration feature of failover clustering. This video has no sound, but uses the Windows 7 snap feature to show a video being played from the C: drive of one of the virtual machines on one side...

Published 03-04-2010 3:46 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Windows Server 2008 R2, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, Live Migration

Hyper-V Clustering – Installing Hyper-V

Here's video 4 of the series, showing the installation of Hyper-V in our clustered environment.

Published 03-04-2010 3:42 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 R2, Dell, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, iSCSI

Hyper-V Clustering – Clustered Shared Volumes

So this post is number 3 in the series about our Hyper-V cluster installation. The video below shows the setting up of clustered shared volumes, a new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Essentially it creates a ‘mount’ point on the C: drive of each of...

Published 03-04-2010 3:40 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 R2, Dell, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, iSCSI

Windows Server Failover Clustering Setup – Corrections

After the warts and all video that was in the last post I went away and started correcting the warnings that came up. Dell MD300i SAN After some more research I changed the configuration of our SAN and iSCSI network. The SAN has 2 controllers each...

Published 03-04-2010 12:44 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, HyperV, Dell, Clustering, Hyper-V, iSCSI

Windows Server Failover Clustering Setup – Video Demo

The video below is the 2nd in the series showing how I setup our new Hyper-V system. This video shows the setting up of the failover clustering feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 warts and all. The video was produced on the very first run of the setup...

Published 03-03-2010 2:28 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 R2, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V

Hyper-V: iSCSI Setup

If you follow the blog then you will have seen the posts about our Hyper-V designs and infrastructure. Well now we get to the interesting bits the physical building of the cluster. So to recap we have the following equipment 5 x Dell R710 Servers 1 x...

Published 02-26-2010 4:58 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, HyperV, Windows Server 2008 R2, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, iSCSI

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