In this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition, Javier Villegas will describe the concept of SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) covering how we can use them for High Availability purposes using Azure Virtual Machines and the different Azure Storage options. Recently introduced in Azure VMs, SQL FCIs allows to easily migrate HA workload from onpremises environments to the cloud with the added benefit of application compatibility.

0:00 Show begins
0:30 About Javier Villegas
1:20 Failover cluster overview
5:36 SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances in Azure
9:09 Demo: Created shared disc in Azure portal
11:42 Getting started

About Javier Villegas:
Javier Villegas is IT Director (DBA & BI Services) at Mediterranean Shipping Company with more than 20 years of experience working with SQL Server, Including Azure SQL.
His specialization is Administration, Performance Tuning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
Javier is a Microsoft MVP Data Platform since 2016 and MCT.
He is a frequent speaker in technical conferences and events such as SQL Saturdays, PASS Virtual Groups, PASS Marathons, 24 Hours SQL PASS , vOpen , GroupBy ,DataPlatformGeeks , Data Saturdays and Azure Global Bootcamps.
He is one of the group leaders of SQL Argentina Community and Microsoft Azure Data Advisory Board Member.

About MVPs:
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