Thanks for the replies folks.
@george - I am not sure if they support DNS alias, but if they do it will be awesome as Mirroring is our go to HA option.
@Lynn - The last conversation I had with the vendor of this finance software, I was told there is no support for failover partners, so they recommend clustering because it uses a single virtual cluster name. Now, the OS team is not really impressed with having forced to go to clusters (VM being not an option). So, I am out here looking for suggestions before we purchase the hardware.
Anything new in SQL 2012/Windows 2012 that may help here?
The_SQL_DBA
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