Category: scalability

azure cloud S2D scalability SOFS sqlserver

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure, building an Highly Available SQL Server(FCI) with S2D+SOFS & Disaster Recovery(AG) in multiple Datacenters

By Paulo Condeça on

*1337 Tech alert: Azure, IaaS, IaC, SQL Server, AlwaysOn AG/FCI, Networking, Clustering, VPN Vnet2Vnet, S2D, SOFS, Load Balancers, Health Probes… Helloooo! Besides SQL Server 🙂 On of my current professional personal pet projects is around Azure, I always liked Infrastructure/ networking related stuff; actually I was a SysAdmin back in 2004 managing stuff from DCs to Exchange,

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azure cloud Clustering S2D scalability sqlserver

Future: Leveraging Windows Server 2016 S2D with SQL Server 2016 to build hyper-converged clusters for the “Automated Datacenter” | Cloud/OnPremises

By Paulo Condeça on

Hello! With the release of Windows Server 2016 and the “great/awesome/fabulous feature” storage spaces direct(S2D) that has the concept of leveraging local storage to build a “virtual-san”, with different storage type from SAS/SSD/NVMe to generate different storage tiers/caching that can be both applicable on the cloud and on premises, this is game changer for SQL,

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