In Part 2 of this blog post series, you’ve seen the interaction between SQL Server and the Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC). In Part 3, you’ve seen the different WSFC components that make Always On Availability Groups (AG) highly available. If SQL Server and the WSFC need to coordinate and communicate consistently to stay […]
“How can you expect to fix the engine if you don’t even know how it works?” – my friendly neighborhood car mechanic. My 20-year old Nissan X-Trail has been misbehaving recently. I can understand that, given how old it is, it has served it’s purpose. But, no. It still drives great and […]
Last year, I started writing an article that was supposed to be a series for Installing, Configuring and Managing Windows Server Failover Cluster using Windows PowerShell. The first of the series came out on July 2013 (which ended up being the last article I wrote for the year 2013 on MSSQLTips.com.) Since then, I’ve been involved […]
I’ve setup a number of Windows Server 2008 (and higher) Failover Clusters in the past and this is the first time I’m seeing this. I’m running the Failover Cluster Validation wizard on two servers that will be used as nodes for a Windows Failover Cluster. When I run the wizard from ServerB, everything works fine. […]
