SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn

Speaker: Phil Hummel of EMC

SQL Server AlwaysOn is the new comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery solution in SQL Server 2012. Phil will show us a demo of AlwaysOn in action and share details of how it works.

AlwaysOn Availability Group will be the primary high availability and disaster recovery feature for databases and will replace database mirroring technology over two releases. This session will start with an overview of terminology and concepts including:

The role of fail-over clustering in AlwaysOnhttp://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/7/5/0/event_113461872.jpeg The AlwaysOn database availability groups The AlwaysOn failover cluster instance How AlwaysOn affects traditional backup and recovery scenarios You'll learn:

The history of SQL Server high availability and what problems AlwaysOn solves The skills required to implement AlwaysOn How database mirroring, failover clustering and AlwaysOn work Phil Hummel is a Senior Technology Consultant on the EMC Microsoft Sales Alliances team. He's responsible for developing and presenting demonstrations showing the integration of Microsoft enterprise software solutions with EMC storage hardware and software. Phil has been working with SQL Server from 1998-2001 as a Solutions Architect for marchFirst and then from 2001-2010 as a technical sale professional for Microsoft. Phil’s career prior to focusing on Microsoft SQL Server involved writing software and managing projects for the electric power and natural gas industries in both government and private sector consulting roles.