Last Thursday, March 25, 2010, the topic of Virtualization of SQL Server came up in the SSWUG Newsletter, with Steven Wynkoop asking if peoples perceptions and experiences have changed since the last time he covered virtualizing SQL Server.  I unfortunately missed the last coverage of this topic, but it appears from the newsletter that there ...

Its been a few days since the first post in this series, and I have learned a lot about clustering in Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008.  The first thing I learned over the last few days is that there are some significant changes in Windows 2008 Clustering that affect how you will roll out a cluster for testing purposes.  A lot of ...

At some point as a SQL Server DBA, you have to learn how to install and configure a SQL Server Cluster.  I personally haven't dealt with a SQL cluster since SQL Server 2000, and I've never had to install one from scratch, so I've decided to jump in feet first and put the time in to learn how to do this.  There are already a few great ...

Bob Ward blogged about this on the Customer Support Services blog this morning: SQL Server Support Policy for Failover Clustering and Virtualization gets an update… Essentially you can now run SQL Server 2005 and 2008 in a Virtualized Failover Cluster as long as the Guest OS is Windows Server 2008 or higher, the selected virtualization ...