VM = Virtual Machine. Cloud = just about whatever people want it to these days. But in general it refers to a virtual environment. And on this...

Actually, you can now host Windows Servers on Azure. This was in beta for a while but MS just announced the new Azure code release on June 7th, which...

600 GB drives must mean you're going with 10k RPM SAS drives. You didn't say how many drives that ML350 G5 has or what type but I'm guessing they...

OK, I just read up quickly on certificate based authentication for mirroring so it shouldn't care about the service account. I'd still check on the other stuff, though.

One other thing, I think I mentioned this before but don't remember if you verified... Can you connect to the principle and mirror from the Witness server? Have you...

Too bad it's not showing up but I'm not sure why. I have a mirror running in a domain and it isn't certificate based so there are some differences...

Successful and Failure logins are written to the Event Viewer, application log. I think you may have to restart the service or server to pick up any changes to...

Sorry if this seems obvious, but is your witness server configured for "SQL Server and Windows authentication mode" or just "Windows authentication mode"?

And do you have login auditing turned on...

I think the two likeliest causes are the witness server can't communicate back to the principle server or the authentication isn't working. If you haven't already, check out this...

I don't have a Server 2008 R2 handy but looking at a Server 2008 for that Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Config directory I have full rights. If you haven't already, you may want...

Thanks Scott. I agree that it is a bit of a hassle. And I also would lean toward mirroring instead of clustering. Looking forward to the advancement...

I know this post was started some time ago but thought I'd contribute some info that I haven't seen in the other posts in case the original author is still...

Take the cash? Lame!!!! Why even enter? Missing the whole point of what makes the competition so awesome. What I don't get is why you can't enter...

OK, so I saw after posting my comment that there were three more pages of comments and someone made my point rather well about how the same number of minimum...

The question about perform's avg disk queue length and its usefulness has come up before on this forum. Here is one of the other conversations about it with a...