Having the ability to deploy Azure VMs starting from images hosted in a gallery is lovely if you need to create a new virtual machine from scratch quickly. Unfortunately, you often need to customize them, and being able to do it during the deployment phase can save you a lot Read more…
Azure Shared Disks and Distrubuted Network Names are the game-changers for SQL Server Failover Clusters on Azure VMs. Let’s see how they work!
Quickly and easily gain hands-on experience on SQL Server High Availability solutions with Azure VMs, by deploying my lab templates.
An overview of high availability scenarios for Azure IaaS SQL Server environments, with some hints about cost-saving techniques.
The use of SQL VM on Azure IaaS is often abused, with customer unhappy with their performance or their costs. This kind of implementation has its place in SQL on Azure offering: let’s see when you should use them, and how to size them efficiently.
I needed a demo environment for my PASS Global Italian Virtual Group session on SQL Server HA on Azure IaaS, to explain some topics regarding SQL Server 2016 Always On Basic Availability Group. To create simple environment with 2-nodes cluster, you have to: Prepare a basic infrastructure (AD, vnet and Read more…
I needed a demo environment for my PASS Global Italian Virtual Group session on SQL Server HA on Azure IaaS, to explain some topics regarding SQL Server 2016 Always On FCI on top of Windows Server 2016 S2D technology in an hyperconverged configuration. To create simple environment with 2-nodes cluster, Read more…