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.

Using an AG to manage data replication will require you to license the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server. On a per-core basis across all the VMs in your FCI, that can be a very pricey option, ...

This seems like more of a server room question than one for the MS forum, but if I'm wrong let me know and I'll ask for a lock/move.In any event:I'm trying to lab up SQL Server 2008 in a 2-node ...