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 Clustering vs Mirroring Sharepoint 2010

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sqlguy7777
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Posted - 2010-06-15 : 19:41:08
Howdy

There seems to be some confusion about Sharepoint 2010 and whether the MS best practice is mirroring or clutsering.

What are peoples thoughts on this please? To me mirroring seems less sensible for Sharepoint as I have found its rare to lose a database, you'd be more likely to lose an instance.

Also, while setting up a cluster is more messy, once its running its usually fine. I find the mirroring only makes sense if you must not have ANY downtime at all, but that said you could use say VMWare Fault Tolerance if things got really critical and achieve the same result.

We are looking at running SQL 2008 R2 on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise on VM. We have some seriously grunty new boxes so perfomance wont be an issue.

All thoughts welcome.
   

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