Technical articles from Microsoft’s clustering, high availability and network load balancing blogs
Since Azure Stack HCI 21H2, customers have used Network ATC to: Reduce host networking deployment time, complexity, and errors Deploy the latest Microsoft validated and supported best practices Ensure configuration consistency across the cluster Eliminate configuration drift Network ATC has led to HUGE reductions in customer support cases which means increased uptime for your business applications and less headaches for you! But what if you …
Today, we’re diving into the world of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, breaking them down into three categories: Reflected XSS, Stored XSS, and DOM XSS. Let’s explore these digital threats and learn how they can impact everyday users like you and me. Reflected XSS – The Click-Trap:Imagine you receive a seemingly innocent link through email, chat, …
Introduction Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is the managed kubernetes service in Azure. It has two main components: worker nodes and control plane.The worker nodes are the VMs where customer applications will be deployed into.The control plane is the component that manages the applications and the worker nodes.A Kubernetes operator like a user, devops team or …
Public and private AKS clusters demystified Continue Reading
Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Azure Stack HCI, version 21H2 and later versions of both Overview: There is a new enhancement in the ability to manage the number of parallel live migrations within a cluster, making it easier to change and ensuring consistency. Previously, changing it required setting it on each node of the cluster, …
New Cluster-Wide Control For Virtual Machine Live Migrations In Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI Continue Reading
This article describes the steps you take to prepare the VMware infrastructure for installing and configuring a high-availability SAP ASCS/SCS instance on a Windows failover cluster by using SIOS DataKeeper as the replicated cluster storage. Create the ASCS VMs For SAP ASCS / SCS cluster, deploy two VMs on different ESXi Servers. Based on your …
How to cluster SAP ASCS/SCS with SIOS DataKeeper on VMware ESXi Servers Continue Reading
Intro So you have built a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI), or maybe an SAP ASCS/ERS cluster in Azure. Each node of the cluster resides in a different Availability Zone (AZ), or maybe you have strict latency requirements and are using Placement Proximity Groups (PPG) and your nodes all reside in the same Availability …
Well, it’s long overdue that I left the comfort of my Windows GUI and ventured into the world of Linux. Mind you I have dabbled a very little bit over the years, watched some training videos about 18 years ago, and even installed Ubuntu on an old laptop at that time. I never ventured far …
How To Linux: A Windows Administrator’s Guide to Linux for the Newbie Continue Reading
On September 9th, 2021, Microsoft announced the general availability of Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage, including Azure Shared Disk. What makes this interesting is that you can now build shared storage based failover cluster instances that span Availability Zones (AZ). With cluster nodes residing in different AZs, users can now qualify for the …
Performance of Azure Shared Disk with Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) Continue Reading
First published on MSDN on Apr 13, 2018 One of the quorum models for Failover Clustering is the ability to use a file share as a witness resource. As a recap, the File Share Witness is designated a vote in the Cluster when needed and can act as a tie breaker in case there is …
Failover Cluster File Share Witness and DFS Continue Reading
Greetings again Windows Server and Failover Cluster fans!! John Marlin here and I own the Failover Clustering feature within the Microsoft product team. In this blog, I will be giving an overview of the new features in Windows Server 2022 Failover Clustering. Some of these will be talked about at the upcoming Windows Server Summit. One note …
New Features of Windows Server 2022 Failover Clustering Continue Reading
