Hi folks

This is the third and the last part of our article series about MS SQL Server 2008 R2 clustering and untill now we completed the creation of virtual machines and Windows clustering on them. In this last part, I will install MS SQL Server 2008 R2 on these virtual clustered machines. But first of all, I want to talk a little bit about MS SQL Server clustering options.

Hi folks

This is the second part of our three part article series about MS SQL Server 2008 R2 clustering. In the first part , I created Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machines in vSphere 4 environment. In this part, I will build the cluster infrastructure,  means create a two-node Windows cluster. Lets start with the requirements for failover cluster creation.

Hello folks

These three part article series are about MS SQL Server 2008 R2 clustering. First part is about the creation of virtual machines. In second part, I will build the cluster infrastructure and finally in third part I will install MS SQL Server 2008 R2 in the clustered environment. The operating system to use for clustering is Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition and it is on a virtualization environment of VMware vSphere 4. Let me first introduce you the components that is going to be used in my clustering scenario. After that,  I can start to explain the procedures to cluster MS SQL product.