Creating compliant failover clusters in the Google Cloud One way to build a fully supported SQL Server FCI for high availability involves using third party SANless failover clustering software.

A production server configured for log shipping transmits SQL Server transaction-log backup information to a secondary server regularly and automatically. But under log shipping, the failover ...

Log Shipping and Logins Establishing a failover server for your SQL Server? First things, first: strategize on your logins. By Eric Johnson 06/28/2010 So you decided to set up log shipping in ...

When designed to support SQL Server, the failover cluster creates a high-performance, high-availability environment that is easy to manage.

The recent versions of Microsoft SQL Server include several high-availability solutions like failover clustering, database mirroring, log shipping and replication.

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.