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Clustering with Remote based mirroring support help

Discussion in 'SQL Server 2008 Clustering' started by Ebenraja, Apr 21, 2011.

  1. Ebenraja Member

    One of my recent requirement is to provide my client with an 100% high availability solution for SQL Database.
    Thinking about proposing a Clustering solution, 2 Cluster pairs with 2 independent SQL instances running on them, for eg
    Cluster Pair 1:
    Node A : 025 N1
    Node B : 025 N2
    SQL instance : 025SQL
    Cluster Pair 2:
    Node A : 026 N1
    Node B : 026 N2
    SQL Instance : 026 SQL
    Principal database name : 'Remote db' present in 025SQL
    Mirrored database name : 'Remote db' present in 026 SQL
    How should i setup my witness in this scenario for favoring an automatic failover ? Can my Witness be just a standalone VM or Physical server, is there any additional diskprocess requirement to set up a Witness server.
    Do any of you have any alternate moves for setting up an 100% availability scenario, if so please do help.;HArdware concepts like EMC's SRDF etc or SAN based mirror will be taken from Hardware engineer perspective, am to suggest from DB end only.
    I know Log ship is out of the box for 100% availability, if there is any difference to Remote based mirror on Cluster , help me know
    Thanks
    Eben

    Ebenraja, Apr 21, 2011
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  2. ghemant Moderator

    I did not understand what you mean by Remote based mirror, please elaborate. If you are configuring a cluster and then mirrored it to another server I guess it is fullfilling HA + DR requirement, why 2 clusters!! One of the project I worked on was having Clustered which is mirrored and then they have storage box replicated at DR site too (hardware level).
    ghemant, Apr 29, 2011
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  3. ghemant Moderator

    ghemant, Apr 29, 2011
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