{"id":1699,"date":"2009-05-20T16:10:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/05\/20\/sql-server-support-policy-for-failover-clustering-and-virtualization-gets-an-update.aspx"},"modified":"2009-05-20T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:10:28","slug":"sql-server-support-policy-for-failover-clustering-and-virtualization-gets-an-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server Support Policy for Failover Clustering and Virtualization gets an update\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One fairly controversial aspect to this policy was our support (actually non-support is a better word) for \u201cguest\u201d failover clustering. We didn\u2019t support installing SQL Server failover clustering in a virtual machine. Well this policy is now changed effective immediately as updated in the article.<\/p>\n<p>The article now contains the following new wording on this topic:<\/p>\n<li>Guest Failover Clustering is supported for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 in a virtual machine for Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, and SVVP certified configurations provided both of the following requirements are met:\n<ul>\n<li>The Operating System running in the virtual machine (the \u201cGuest Operating System\u201d) is Windows Server 2008 or higher <\/li>\n<li>The virtualization environment meets the requirements of Windows 2008 Failover Clustering as documented at The Microsoft Support Policy for Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Guest Failover Clustering is when you create a SQL Server failover cluster inside a virtual machine where the nodes are running as a virtual machine. A non-SVVP configuration that meets these requirements will receive support from Microsoft CSS per the policies documented in <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/897615\/\">897615<\/a> (http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/897615\/ ) Support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/psssql\/archive\/2009\/05\/19\/sql-server-support-policy-for-failover-clustering-and-virtualization-gets-an-update.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/psssql\/archive\/2009\/05\/19\/sql-server-support-policy-for-failover-clustering-and-virtualization-gets-an-update.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/psssql\/archive\/2009\/05\/19\/sql-server-support-policy-for-failover-clustering-and-virtualization-gets-an-update.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One fairly controversial aspect to this policy was our support (actually non-support is a better word) for \u201cguest\u201d failover clustering. We didn\u2019t support installing SQL Server failover clustering in a virtual machine. Well this policy is now changed effective immediately as updated in the article. The article now contains the following new wording on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}