Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks
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 ... continue reading
New Cluster-Wide Control For Virtual Machine Live Migrations In Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI
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 ... continue reading
How to cluster SAP ASCS/SCS with SIOS DataKeeper on VMware ESXi Servers
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 ... continue reading
How to use Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to replicate a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) that uses SIOS DataKeeper for cluster storage
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 ... continue reading
How To Linux: A Windows Administrator’s Guide to Linux for the Newbie
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, ... continue reading
Performance of Azure Shared Disk with Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS)
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 ... continue reading
Failover Cluster File Share Witness and DFS
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 ... continue reading
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp just had a really bad Monday
It’s the end of the work day here on the east coast and I see that the Facebook is still unavailable. Facebook acknowledged the problem in the following two Tweets. I can pinpoint the time that Facebook went offline for ... continue reading
New Features of Windows Server 2022 Failover Clustering
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 ... continue reading
AWS BYOC – Bring your own SQL Server cluster with AWS EC2 and SIOS
Nice blog post from SQL Server expert Steve Rezhener. DataSteve Introduction They are multiple options to implement HADR solution for SQL Server in AWS public cloud. The easiest way to do that is to use AWS Database as a Service ... continue reading