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Load balancing with High Availability - SQL Server + IIS using AWS

This is my first time load-balancing with high-availability using Windows and SQL Server. Looking for some validation and input on my planned setup. Now, typically when I want to create a HA ...
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How does a SQL Server Availability Group decide on which secondary will become the new primary when an automatic failover is triggered?

How does a SQL Server Availability Group with multiple synchronous-commit secondary replicas decide on which secondary replica will become the new primary when an automatic failover is triggered? ...
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Stratus Servers vs Virtualised Machines as a High Availability Solution [closed]

I've been asked to do this as a presentation, but to be honest, either I've totally missed the point or am I being asked to compare an actual company i.e. Stratus against the concept of virtualising ...
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Highly available and scalable SQL Servers with read-only databases?

I've been thinking about building a website which could potentially get a lot of traffic. It would be a research site of sorts with wiki capabilities. So users would be able to edit information on ...
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Server 2008 Failover

How do I ensure high availability of data on two physical servers in the event one were to fail? I have two Dell T710s, both with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. My highest priority is to make sure ...
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How to make AD highly available for applications that use it as an LDAP service

Our situation We currently have many web applications that use LDAP for authentication. For this, we point the web application to one of our AD domain controllers using the LDAPS port (636). When we ...
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High Availability with 3 servers: To virtualise or not?

We're changing hosts for our SAAS app (IIS+MSSQL) and have an opportunity to redesign the infrastructure. Either stick with what we have (which works well) or virtualise with vSphere. Current: 2x ...
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High Availability Options for MSMQ

We plan to develop a highly available system based on Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ). Currently we are collecting high availability options for MSMQ. We plan to use Windows Server 2008R2 as the ...
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What are the exact storage requirements for an AlwaysOn implementation?

We're investigating implementation options for SQL Server AlwaysOn. AlwaysOn is dependant on Windows Clustering, and I have read several articles that state shared storage is no longer a requirement ...
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Convert HyperV Servers in to HyperV Cluster

We have 2 Hyperv Servers and a SAN. When they were configured, High Availability wasn't on the horizon. But it is now. Can I convert the current servers in place to use Failover Clustering? Or ...
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Best solution for 2 servers for HA

Just to say I know some about servers and databases but not enough to achieve what has been asked so I just need some advice to set me straight :) Okay so we have two dedicated servers running ...
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Windows 2008 ignores Gratuitous ARP requests

We recently saw an issue after a fail over of our router where our Windows 2008 Boxes didn't start talking to the primary router after fail-back. When we did some digging they still had the ARP ...
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Is it possible to create multiple instances of the Windows Task Scheduler?

I have a 2-node Windows Failover Cluster that I have clustered the Task Scheduler in to run my batch application. However I have certain tasks (backups, log rotation, etc) that need to run daily on ...
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Windows Server Appfabric caching and high availability

We are in the process of converting a solution to use Windows Server Appfabric Caching. We are wondering: How do you turn on the high availability option? Such that the cache is stored on more than ...
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HA suggestions for geographically separated sites

I have 6 instances of sql server that I need to be highly available by being hosted on two sites (one as principal, one as DR). Transparent automatic failover is required. Most are fairly boring and ...
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Whats the best way to setup an IIS7 Webfarm for an ASP.NET Application

We are looking to setup an IIS7 WebFarm... We have 2 IIS7/Windows Server 2008 boxes that will act as the load balanced webservers. How do you setup IIS/Windows Server 2008 to handle balancing the ...
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Most suitable high availability solution

My company is hosting a website in a server with IIS, SQL Server and a 3rd party windows service (written in C#, source code available for amendments). We bought a new identical server, composed by: ...
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Exchange 2010 DAG Automatic Failover Testing/Issue. Not always automatically failing over to healthy DB copy depending on the way mounted server wrecks

Ok I've got 2 exchange 2010 servers that run client access/hub transport/mailbox roles and one exchange 2010 server running just client access/hub transport roles and acts as my bridgehead. The two ...
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SQL 2008 Clustering

I need to configure SQL or Windows 2008 Clustering to get HA with no packet loss. I configure my SQLcluster, but when I restart one node, I lose one ping. I try to lose no ping so that my query will ...