High Availability and Azure for SQL Server

Come and Join us for a presentation on SQL Server High Availability using Azure sponser by SIOS. Refreshments will be provided.

David Bermingham is recognized within the technology community as a high availability expert and has been honored by his peers by being elected to be a Microsoft MVP in Clustering since 2010. David’s work as director of Technical Evangelist at SIOS has him focused on evangelizing Microsoft high availability and disaster recovery solutions as well as providing hands on support, training and professional services for cluster implementations. David hold numerous technical certifications and draws from over twenty years of experience IT, including work in the finance, healthcare and education fields, to help organizations design solutions to meet their high availability and disaster recovery needs. David has recently begun speaking on deploying highly available SQL Servers in the Azure Cloud and deploying Azure Hybrid Cloud for disaster recovery.

Presentation:

· Understand the concept of Azure Fault Domains and Update Domains in relation to SQL Server high availability in Azure IaaS

· Learn how SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups and Failover Cluster instances can be deployed in Azure for High Availability

· Learn how Azure’s Internal Load Balancer is used in AlwaysOn deployments for client redirection

· Learn how Azure Hybrid cloud configurations can be used in Azure to provide both high availability and disaster recovery