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SQL Saturday: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Azure IaaS

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High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Azure IaaS

Speaker: Jason Aw

Duration: 60 minutes

Level: Beginner

Track: Application, DBA and Database Development

The CEO just tasked you with moving all the SQL Server instances to Azure, or maybe you are deploying a brand new application and want to leverage Azure IaaS to host SQL Server. Beyond security and performance, your most pressing concern might be ensuring SQL Server running in Azure is highly available.

While on-prem high availability and disaster recovery options for SQL Server are well defined, moving those instances to Azure immediately presents some questions and challenges. Can I simply lift and shift my SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance to the cloud? Do I need to upgrade to SQL Server Enterprise Edition and us Always On Availability Groups? What about shared storage and failover clustering? What about disaster recovery, what are my options there? Load Balancers, Fault Domains, Availability Zones, Azure Site Recovery and Region Pairs, what are these things and why do they matter to me?

High Availability and Disaster Recovery professional Jason Aw with 20 years of experience explains all this and more in detail.

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SQL Saturday: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Azure IaaS

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SQL Saturday: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Azure IaaS

Speaker: Jason Aw

Duration: 60 minutes

Level: Beginner

Track: Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment

The CEO just tasked you with moving all the SQL Server instances to Azure, or maybe you are deploying a brand new application and want to leverage Azure IaaS to host SQL Server. Beyond security and performance, your most pressing concern might be ensuring SQL Server running in Azure is highly available.

While on-prem high availability and disaster recovery options for SQL Server are well defined, moving those instances to Azure immediately presents some questions and challenges. Can I simply lift and shift my SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance to the cloud? Do I need to upgrade to SQL Server Enterprise Edition and us Always On Availability Groups? What about shared storage and failover clustering? What about disaster recovery, what are my options there? Load Balancers, Fault Domains, Availability Zones, Azure Site Recovery and Region Pairs, what are these things and why do they matter to me?

High Availability and Disaster Recovery professional Jason Aw with 20 years of experience explains all this and more in detail.

 

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Webinar: Availability Options and Requirements for SQL Server 2008 in Azure

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Availability Options and Requirements for SQL Server 2008 in Azure

Webinar: Availability Options and Requirements for SQL Server 2008 in Azure

Time is running out for your SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 instances. On July 9th the extended support date for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 officially runs out. This means no more security updates will be issued. But wait, there is an option. By moving your SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Instances to Azure, Microsoft will provide an additional three years of Extended Security Updates at no additional charge Running. Before taking the plunge on moving your SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 instances to Azure, you need to understand the availability options and requirements to ensure that your high availability and disaster recovery concerns are addressed.

Learn how to deploy SQL Server 2008 /2008 R2 Failover Cluster Instances in Azure properly. This includes addressing the lack of a shared storage option as well as networking requirements including the Internal Load Balancing requirements. Azure Site Recovery will be introduced as a viable alternative as a disaster recovery option which allows for a robust RPO/RTO in an entirely different Azure region.

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Webinar: Understanding Disaster Recovery Options for SQL Server

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Understanding Disaster Recovery Options for SQL Server

Webinar: Understanding Disaster Recovery Options for SQL Server

Webinar: Understanding Disaster Recovery Options for SQL Server

Yes – you need a disaster recovery plan! Your SQL Server data depends on it.

On this webinar, Dave Bermingham, Microsoft Datacenter and Cloud MVP, explains the difference between Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and High Availability and why each is a critical component for any business’ survival. Discover what key components should be included in your Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity plans and explore some of the tools available to help achieve your Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity goals.

Concerned about end of support for SQL Server 2008?  See how SIOS helps customers prepare for SQL Server 2008 EOS.

Webinar: Best Practices for running SQL Server on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute

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Best Practices for running SQL Server on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

Webinar: Best Practices for running SQL Server on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

Running SQL Server in the cloud doesn’t have to be complicated or anxiety-inducing. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) like AWS, have optimized their infrastructure to run SQL Server with price, performance and availability as key requirements. This webinar covers how AWS in partnership with SIOS, addresses those three requirements in their industry leading IaaS offering, EC2.

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