How to deploy a SQL Server failover cluster with Amazon EBS Multi-Attach on Windows Server
Microsoft Workloads on AWS Blog
This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to deploy a SQL Server failover cluster using Amazon EBS Multi-Attach with NVMe Reservations on Windows Server.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Introduction to SQL Server failover cluster instances and availability groups
- Overview of the solution architecture using Amazon EBS io2 volumes with Multi-Attach for shared storage
- Prerequisites for setting up the environment
- Detailed walkthrough of the deployment process
- Steps for creating EC2 instances, provisioning EBS volumes, initializing volumes, configuring SCSI persistent reservations, creating the failover cluster, installing SQL Server failover cluster, and adding nodes
- Cleanup steps for terminating resources
- Conclusion highlighting the cost-saving benefits and simplified setup process
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