Hi,
We are new to the Microsoft clustering world and have a few questions.
We have server A which is Windows 2008R2, SQL2008R2 server. Server A is also a VM ware 5.1 machine.
We would like to be able to create a remote DR server site with an exact copy of Server A - same machine name, same IP, same DB's, same everything..a mirror. Call it server B.
We are hoping that we could use MS clustering to do a real time automatic failover so that if Sever A goes down then Server B (both VM machines) would automatically have all the current Database data that was on server A.
What are the hardware requirements? Is it okay that we are on VMware? Do we just setup everything is the Win OS software? Is MS clustering the right solution for this scenario?