failover cluster
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Windows Server 2025
Windows Server 2025 New Failover Clustering Features
As we have covered in our Windows Server 2025 series of new features, there are many great new improvements with Microsoft’s new server operating system. In this post, we will key in on the improvements specific to Windows Failover Clustering…
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Hyper-V
Backup Hyper-V clusters with Nakivo
Nakivo Backup & Replication provides a powerful means to backup multiple hypervisors including VMware, AWS instances, and also Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Especially cool with the Hyper-V support is the ability to protect Hyper-V Failover Cluster environments. This functionality was introduced…
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Hyper-V
Setup a Hyper-V Cluster Lab in VMware Workstation
Setting up a Hyper-V cluster lab in VMware Workstation is not too difficult and can easily be accomplished in a couple of hours worth of work to get things configured and ready to go. Basically the same requirements hold true…
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SQL
Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration
A project recently had me working on Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration for an international company who had recently provisioned this new Windows cluster to replace an aging cluster already in place. There are a lot of…
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Servers
SQL Server Firewall and performance tweaks
Everyone, I wanted to pass along a few Windows firewall tweaks that I have found useful with building a SQL server on Windows 2008 server or higher. The following simple tweaks can really help with issues you may see involving…
