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vMware solution for clustering service?

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cuukie

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at work i has a microsoft clustering server in vMware that i use for mssql and another server app. we use this setup for high availability and the ability to perform server maintenance like windows updates on the inactive node when done failover to the inactive node and then do maintenance on the once-active-node.

does vMware have a solution that will enable me to do the same thing? i has several mssql servers that has to be online as much as possible with little to no down time but i would like to rid myself of mscs if possible.
 
You can try to use fault tolerance feature but its currently pretty limited in what configuration it supports. There is a tech preview that allows greater flexibility. It will keep our vm/app online but won't let u do maintenance on inactive node. For that u are pretty much stuck with MS clustering unless you do some sort of log shipping on sql side.
 
No, not for OS protection (patching and the like). You can do FT, but that's only for hardware failures.

Now then, I'd argue that maybe you don't NEED MSCS - can you stand a 5 minute downtime once a month or the like? 'Cause taht's all windows patching really needs, and HA will get you up in 35-40 seconds most of the time, not much worse than MSCS (10-15).
 
We run SQL 2012 HA groups MSCS with great success on our esxi environment in production. only seconds of downtime in the most extreme failure(outside of data corruption/loss).
 
4saken said:
We run SQL 2012 HA groups MSCS with great success on our esxi environment in production. only seconds of downtime in the most extreme failure(outside of data corruption/loss).
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Availability with MSCS is good. the issue we have is it's done with the use of pRDM which prevents a lot of vMware features such as drs, vmotion, and the unability to use srm. it it because of these issues we look for an alternative.

mssql isn't something i'm very smart in so not sure what if anything is out there without the use of mscs.
 
cuukie said:
Availability with MSCS is good. the issue we have is it's done with the use of pRDM which prevents a lot of vMware features such as drs, vmotion, and the unability to use srm. it it because of these issues we look for an alternative.

mssql isn't something i'm very smart in so not sure what if anything is out there without the use of mscs.
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MSCS works fine with SRM. Replicate the RDMs and off you go - have to have array based replication though.
 
gots to work with what i have and like arrays in both the dc and adc is not one of them so vsphere replication is all i have. neither does keeping RDM resolve issue with drs or vmotion.
 
cuukie said:
gots to work with what i have and like arrays in both the dc and adc is not one of them so vsphere replication is all i have. neither does keeping RDM resolve issue with drs or vmotion.
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create a storage server and export teh shared storage with the MSFT target/client.
 
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