Tag: MSCS
SQL 2012 AAG/FCI added to VMware “Supported Configurations” KB
Just a quick post to note that VMware has added SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups and AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances to their “Microsoft Clustering on VMware vSphere: Guidelines for Supported Configurations” knowledgebase article. This is a KB article that I refer to frequently when speaking with customers about virtualizing business critical applications and clustered servers. As expected, SQL 2012 AAGs…
New in vSphere 5.1–Support for five node Failover Clusters
As has been the case with the last few vSphere releases, VMware has crammed vSphere 5.1 full of new features and functionality. I won’t try to go into all of the details since there are many blog posts out there already. Since virtualizing business critical applications is near and dear to my heart, one of the changes that immediately jumped…
Guest clustering on vSphere: A familiar topic revisited
Yes, it’s 2012 and we’re still talking about whether or not organizations should consider running a Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster (sometimes referred to as MSCS clustering) in a vSphere environment. I know this topic has been written about before by others but I wanted to share some of my own thoughts and experiences around this topic. My focus these days…
vMotion of clustered VMs is supported in vSphere 4.1..or is it?
While looking over some of the new vSphere 4.1 documentation I noticed that VMware had updated their Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service document. As clustering becomes a bigger component of Microsoft’s enterprise applications, support for clustering in vSphere becomes even more important. As in previous versions of this document they list the limitations for clustering on vSphere. …