Windows Multi Site/Geo Cluster

Hi,
I am looking for a Multi Site Cluster solution for File Server and SQL DB. Could you pls help with any case study of solution approach for building the Multi Site cluster using Windows 2012 ?
What is recommended for Replication
Which all Application/DB are compatible for Multi Site
Are there any implementation documents
pls suggest
Regards:Mahesh

Hi,
I am looking for a Multi Site Cluster solution for File Server and SQL DB. Could you pls help with any case study of solution approach for building the Multi Site cluster using Windows 2012 ?
What is recommended for Replication
Which all Application/DB are compatible for Multi Site
Are there any implementation documents
pls suggest
General suggestion: if possible use async replication rather then sync. Sync mirror puts high stress on WAN and lack of reliable channels can lead to cluster either non-operational (all WAN links down so cluster node w/o quorum kills itself) or brain split
issue (all WAN links down so separated cluster nodes continue working AS IS damaging data). For async replication you may look @ DFS-(R) as a file server, see:
Distributed File System
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(v=ws.10).aspx
For SQL Server look at AlwaysOn in async way, see:
AlwaysOn for SQL Server
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff877884.aspx
Availability Modes
The availability mode is a property of each availability replica. The availability mode determines whether the primary replica waits to commit transactions on a database until a given secondary replica has written the transaction log records to disk (hardened
the log). AlwaysOn Availability Groups supports two availability modes—asynchronous-commit mode and synchronous-commit mode.
Asynchronous-commit mode
An availability replica that uses this availability mode is known as an asynchronous-commit replica. Under asynchronous-commit mode, the primary replica commits transactions without waiting for acknowledgement that
an asynchronous-commit secondary replica has hardened the log. Asynchronous-commit mode minimizes transaction latency on the secondary databases but allows them to lag behind the primary databases, making some data loss possible.
Of course it's possible to configure SMB 3.0 failover file share on geo-separated sites and use Failover Cluster Instances for SQL Server in the same scenario. Just make sure you configure reliable witness (you'll have to do it for SQL Server AlwaysOn either
way...) on some third location. For file server I'd suggest to use some sort of a software replication in sync way instead of a geo-distributed physical shared storage. That one is for SQL Server and SteelEye Data Keeper but you can use any Windows-native
(preferred) software as well. See:
SQL Server Geo-Cluster with software shared storage
http://clusteringformeremortals.com/2009/10/07/step-by-step-configuring-a-2-node-multi-site-cluster-on-windows-server-2008-r2-–-part-3/
Good luck! :)
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.

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