SSAS high availability

Written by James Serra on 24 May 2017. Posted in Management

If you are looking at providing high availability (HA) for SSAS, here are 3 options:

Install SSAS on a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC)
Here’s a good article. The main issue with this option is that SSAS isn’t cluster-aware, so if windows is “OK” but SSAS (the service) is hung, it won’t failover