Mellanox definitely has the name and reputation in this case, if that means anything. But saving money is saving money 🙂

@kris_k said in Ms licensing for a windows jump server:

@scottalanmiller This is not recommended, nor supported by MS as well 🙂
Thanks for all the ideas and thoughts everyone!

But it is "more" supported 🙂

The main firewall config and port forwarding works fine. The issue is with the openvpn server (or client) and its iptables not handling the traffic properly.

@Kris_K From the fwy offramp to the LA2 site, is less than a mile drive.

@Kris_K said in VDP MS SQL AAG backup best practices:

@travisdh1 said in VDP MS SQL AAG backup best practices:

Sounds correct to me. Just be sure the SQL backups actually happen before the AAG cluster backup,

Well, if i select Full server and select the whole cluster, aren't all the dbs (except for system dbs) backed up along with all node VMs?

In theory yes. In reality, those database files are held open by the database more often than not, and so they might not be a valid file anymore if you try to just restore the files. Which is why the rule to backup databases is to use the built-in database tools to create a backup, and then keep that in your normal backups.