Author Archives: Gilles Monville

Gilles Monville is a passionate of IT for many years; he works for over 10 years on Microsoft and VMware environments. In addition to Virtualization and Cloud computing, he loves automation (Orchestrator, PowerShell, Cloud deployment …)

SQL AlwaysOn FCI in Azure IaaS Cloud with StarWind Virtual SAN Solution

1 – Introduction This article explains how to deploy an SQL AlwaysOn FCI in Azure IaaS Cloud in SAN-less mode (without Shared Storage like SAN, NAS …) with StarWind Virtual SAN solution.           StarWind Virtual SAN allows to present Shared Volume to a WSFC Cluster from two or more nodes without physical shared storage solution (SAN, ...

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Begin Azure IaaS – Prepare your Environment

1 – Introduction This article presents how to prepare an environment in Azure IaaS (Resource Group, Cloud Service, VMNET, VM …) from the beginning and explain Azure basic concept: creation of all required resources (Resource Group, Storage account, Cloud Services). configuration of a Virtual Network (VNET) with multiple subnet. configuration of VPN Gateway (Point-to-site VPN) for client connection and certificate configuration. ...

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StarWind Webinar: Get Unbelievable Performance without Expensive All-Flash Arrays

Webinar: Get Unbelievable Performance without Expensive All-Flash Arrays Date: 16 June 10am PT / 1pm ET Speaker: Max Kolomyeytsev, StarWind Software Inc. Product Manager Have you noticed the way all-flash arrays silently conquered the market of high-performance storage? And do you know it’s really possible to get all-flash performance without actually spending a fortune? Spindle drives are too weak for ...

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AlwaysOn Part 8 – Methods to add Database (SCOM)

SQL Server 2012/2014 AlwaysOn Availability Groups: Article Summary Part 1 – AlwaysOn Introduction Part 2 – AlwaysOn Design Part 3 – Install and Configure Windows Server 2012 R2 in Core mode Part 4 – WSFC Cluster Creation Part 5 – Install SQL Core on Windows Core Server Part 6 – AlwaysOn Availability Groups Creation Part 7 – AlwaysOn Availability Groups ...

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AlwaysOn Part 7 – AAG with dedicated Replication Network

SQL Server 2012/2014 AlwaysOn Availability Groups: Article Summary Part 1 – AlwaysOn Introduction Part 2 – AlwaysOn Design Part 3 – Install and Configure Windows Server 2012 R2 in Core mode Part 4 – WSFC Cluster Creation Part 5 – Install SQL Core on Windows Core Server Part 6 – AlwaysOn Availability Groups Creation Part 7 – AlwaysOn Availability Groups ...

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AlwaysOn Availability Groups Creation

SQL Server 2012/2014 AlwaysOn Availability Groups: Article Summary Part 1 – AlwaysOn Introduction Part 2 – AlwaysOn Design Part 3 – Install and Configure Windows Server 2012 R2 in Core mode Part 4 – WSFC Cluster Creation Part 5 – Install SQL Core on Windows Core Server Part 6 – AlwaysOn Availability Groups Creation Part 7 – AlwaysOn Availability Groups ...

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SCCM 2012 R2 Environment Preparation Requirements

This article covers the installation on a SCCM 2012 R2 environment for Computer management (OS Deployment and Inventory). There are: One server for SQL and Reporting services One server for SCCM Primary Site One server for a secondary SCCM Management and Deployment Point (it will be used later for SUP roles and Application Catalog).   All servers are installed with ...

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