Hi,
I work at a small company and we can't afford the Enterprise edition of SQL server, but we have the same need as a large company (sales people in different time zones +- 6-8h) when it comes to high availability because we only have one it-admin/dba...etc, and that is me and I can't work 24/7 :)
We are using SQL server to host some minor (~20GB each) databases for internal company/staff/not public use that I like to make part of a HA SQL Server solution with automatic failover that can be monitored. What is the best and safest route to go, Mirroring, Failover clustering or replication? We are using Windows 2012 Std and SQL server 2012 Std so we can't use the AlwaysOn feature (SQL Enterprise only). I would prefer if it were possible to not introduce another single point of failure like shared storage (iSCSI, SAN (clustered = too pricey) etc...).
Regars,
Anders