SQL 2008 Multi Site Clustering

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• Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:44 PM

   

   
  

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  Yes, it is called a multisite cluster. Microsoft's Symon Perriman has an excellent presentation on multisite clusters here.

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Video/hh133452

  I also wrote a Step-by-Step series on multisite clusters here

  http://clusteringformeremortals.com/2009/09/15/step-by-step-configuring-a-2-node-multi-site-cluster-on-windows-server-2008-r2-%E2%80%93-part-1/

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  David A. Bermingham, MVP, Senior Technical Evangelist, SIOS Technology Corp

  • Proposed As Answer by Chirag Shah Tuesday, May 08, 2012 9:30 PM
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• Wednesday, May 09, 2012 3:05 AM

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  In addition to David's response, if you are using SQL Server 2008 R2 and below, multi-site cluster is not supported natively without having to implement a stretched VLAN. However, SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Failover Clustering now supports multi-subnet clusters natively.

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  Edwin Sarmiento SQL Server MVP
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• Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:19 AM

   

   
  

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  As well as SteelEye there are a number of other storage vendors that support multi-site failover cluster. e.g. EMC, IBM, HDS, HP etc.
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