I faced some troubles in executing cmdkey.exe on a PowerShell remote session, while I was trying to automate the creation of a SQL Failover Cluster Instance on Azure VMs, using Azure Premium File Share (PFS) as shared storage. You need cmdkey.exe since you must persist Azure PFS access credentials on Read more…
I needed a demo environment for my PASS Global Italian Virtual Group session on SQL Server HA on Azure IaaS, to explain some topics regarding SQL Server 2016 Always On Basic Availability Group. To create simple environment with 2-nodes cluster, you have to: Prepare a basic infrastructure (AD, vnet and Read more…
I needed a demo environment for my PASS Global Italian Virtual Group session on SQL Server HA on Azure IaaS, to explain some topics regarding SQL Server 2016 Always On FCI on top of Windows Server 2016 S2D technology in an hyperconverged configuration. To create simple environment with 2-nodes cluster, Read more…
This article is the third part of a series which describes the lab environment I prepared for my demo @ TCDIT2017 conference. Other parts of the series are available here: In this post I’ll try to summarize the steps you need to implement in order to create an Azure Automation Read more…
This is the first of a series of articles where you can find instructions to reproduce the lab environment I used for my demo @ Technical Cloud Day 2017 conference. Other parts of this series are available here: In my session I talked about SQL Server disaster recovery technologies available for hybrid Read more…