{"id":746,"date":"2019-08-12T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2019-08-12T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:12:17","slug":"introducing-sios-high-availability-for-sql-server-2008-r2-in-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/introducing-sios-high-availability-for-sql-server-2008-r2-in-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing SIOS high availability for SQL Server 2008\/R2 in Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 ended on July 9, 2019. That \nmeans the end of regular security updates. However, if you move those \nSQL Server instances to Azure or Azure Stack, Microsoft will give you \nthree years of extended security updates at no additional cost. If \nyou\u2019re currently running SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and you are unable \nto update to a later version of SQL Server, you will want to take \nadvantage of this offer rather than running the risk of facing a future \nsecurity vulnerability. An unpatched instance of SQL Server could lead \nto data loss, downtime, or a devastating data breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a SQL Server failover cluster instance (FCI) or  use hypervisor-based high availability, or other clustering technology  on-premises for high availability, you\u2019ll probably need the same in  Azure. If you need to migrate to Azure\/Azure Stack at end of support,  and you require high availability for SQL Server 2008\/2008 R2, there\u2019s  only one solution recommended by Microsoft: SIOS DataKeeper<strong>.<\/strong>  SIOS DataKeeper enables clustering in the cloud, including the creation  of a SQL Server 2008\/2008 R2 failover cluster instance, allowing you to  achieve your high availability goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/sqlserver\/2019\/07\/26\/introducing-sios-high-availability-for-sql-server-2008-r2-in-azure\/\">Click here to view the rest of this post. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 ended on July 9, 2019. That means the end of regular security updates. However, if you move those SQL Server instances to Azure or Azure Stack, Microsoft will give you three years of extended security updates at no additional cost. If you\u2019re currently running SQL Server 2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,76,21,100,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alwayson","category-azure","category-clustering","category-high-availability","category-upgradesmigrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlfreelancer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}