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Enhancing High Availability in Windows Server 2008 R2: Insights by Steve Evans

Discover effective strategies for achieving high availability in Windows Server 2008 R2 as discussed by Microsoft MVP Steve Evans. This guide covers essential topics such as Active Directory, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Exchange, along with practical insights into application redundancy, data load balancing, and failover clustering. Steve provides valuable information for IT professionals and consultants looking to optimize their Microsoft IT infrastructure. Explore best practices, common pitfalls, and streamlined solutions for high availability.

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Enhancing High Availability in Windows Server 2008 R2: Insights by Steve Evans

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  1. Windows Server 2008 R2High Availability Steve Evans http://SerkTools.com

  2. Steve Evans • Microsoft MVP, Directory Services • Blog – http://SerkTools.com • Twitter - @scevans • SerkTools (http://SerkTools.com) • Content Creation/Delivery • Screencast, Whitepapers, Blogging, Events • Consulting • Microsoft IT Infrastructure (Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, Identity, etc)

  3. Stand Alone Free Simple Good Enough? Application Data

  4. Application Redundancy AD/DNS/SMTP Protocol Support Perfect! Application Application Data Data

  5. Load Balancer Load Balancer Web Servers Remote Desktop Services App Support Helps Application Application Data Data

  6. Fail Over Clustering Application Application File Services/SQL Shared Storage Complicated Expensive Data Data

  7. No Majority: Disk Only Old School == BAD! Shared Volume Cluster Config Single Point of Failure

  8. Node Majority Each Node Gets 1 Vote Cluster Requires Majority Cluster Config Cluster Config Cluster Config

  9. Node & Disk Majority Shared Disk can have 1 vote Even # of Nodes Shared Volume Cluster Config

  10. Multi Site Clustering File Share Witness VERY Complicated Replication by 3rd Party Cloud for File Share Witness? Dedicated Volume Dedicated Volume Replication

  11. File Server Cluster Cluster Group Type: DFS Root Network Name: serk-file Disk: vol0 IP Address vol0 Cluster Group Type: File Server Network Name: serk-file-01 File Share: share$ Disk: vol1 IP Address vol1 Cluster Group Type: File Server Network Name: serk-file-02 File Share: share$ Disk: vol2 IP Address vol2

  12. DFS Client Experience

  13. Hyper-V Live Migrate Guest Level Clustering Application Agnostic Simplified Guests

  14. PowerShell Support

  15. Top Windows Failover cmdlets Add-ClusterDisk Add/Remove-ClusterNode Add/Remove-ClusterGroup Get/Set-ClusterQuorom Get/Set-ClusterLog Move-ClusterGroup New-Cluster Test-Cluster

  16. Steve Evans • Microsoft MVP, Directory Services • Blog – http://SerkTools.com • Twitter - @scevans • SerkTools (http://SerkTools.com) • Content Creation/Delivery • Screencast, Whitepapers, Blogging, Events • Consulting • Microsoft IT Infrastructure (Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, Identity, etc)

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