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Training Week: Announcing Edwin’s New Class on Failover Clustered Instances

April 11, 2018

This week, we've got a bunch of announcements about new training classes. Next up, Edwin Sarmiento: his 3-day Always On Availability Group class has been getting great reviews:
"This class is fantastic. There is no filler, and no needless repetition, so be prepared to pay attention the entire duration. Edwin clearly is very passionate about his craft and does an incredible job of sharing his knowledge. Great balance of theory and application. I went through 4 glitter pens taking notes. A+" - Jordan

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New Windows Clustering Course for SQL Server DBAs by Edwin Sarmiento

July 22, 2016

The SQL Server community has been waiting a long time for an in-depth Windows clustering course on current versions of Windows.

See, AlwaysOn Availability Groups as well as good ol' Failover Clustered Instances both rely on Windows clustering in order to manage uptime. If you're going to do an AG or an FCI, you gotta know Windows.

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Updated High Availability and Disaster Recovery Planning Worksheet

July 22, 2016

One of the most popular things in our First Responder Kit is our HA/DR planning worksheet. Here's page one: In the past, we had three columns on this worksheet - HA, DR, and Oops Deletes. In this new version, we changed "Oops" Deletes to "Oops" Queries to make it clear that sometimes folks just update…

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Common SQL Server Clustering, AlwaysOn, and High Availability Answers

August 31, 2013

Our live webcast topic this week was Q&A - you could bring any HA/DR questions, and we could avoid your answers. Just kidding. Here's the webcast - we apologize for the audio, WebEx is still getting their act together. It cleans up after the first couple of minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1URY5M09ic

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Introduction to SQL Server Failover Clusters (video)

August 22, 2013

You’d love to know how to make your SQL Servers more highly available, but you’re just not sure what “clustering” is all about. We can help! In this 30 minute video Kendra Little shows you how failover clusters make your SQL Servers easier to manage. She uses diagrams and drawings to teach you the strengths and weaknesses of failover clusters and shows why clustering is becoming even more critical for high availability and disaster recovery.

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Why Your SQL Server Cluster Shouldn’t Be Virtualized

September 27, 2012

When people buy my virtualization training video, one of the followup questions I get most often via email is, "Can I build SQL Server clusters in VMware and Hyper-V?"

In theory, yes.  Microsoft's knowledge base article on SQL Server virtualization support says they'll support you as long as you're using configurations listed in the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP).

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