To fully leverage the benefits of cloud and hybrid cloud environments, companies need to separate myths from facts and consider a new approach to high availability and disaster recovery.
HA and DR Protection
Get high-availability and disaster recovery in the cloud with cost-efficient SQL Standard Edition.
To provide high-availability and disaster protection for SQL Server in the cloud, you may want to configure a failover cluster with redundant application instances in different cloud-availability zones, each configured on different IP networks (subnets). To support failover across these availability zones, you are required to purchase SQL Server Enterprise Edition, which can be cost prohibitive for simple two-node deployments in this configuration.
In these cases, SANless software can be used to provide high-availability failover across availability zones with low-cost SQL Standard Edition.