SQL Managed Instances – Failing Over

This is our current setup shown below.

There is not much to failing over with Managed Instances, from experience it is similar to that of Azure SQL Database.

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Failover Groups for Managed Instances

If you have been following me for a while you will know that I really like the Fail over groups within Azure SQL DB and it is no different to when applying it to Managed Instances. If you want a rock-solid DR plan, this is the way forward.

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Azure SQL Managed Instance – Premium Tier

In case you are not aware Microsoft have now deployed a new change to SQL Managed Instances within the tier types. In certain regions ( shown later) you can select something different to that of gen 5 hardware now called standard – more specifically premium series where you have 2 options as shown below – a much wanted request!

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Azure SQL Managed Instance CPU and RAM

With SQL Managed Instance you will need to consider your configuration requirements in terms of core count for the CPU and memory, which we all know that the MIN/MAX settings for SQL is so important.

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