Recently I was requested to investigate the Cluster failures underlying a SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Group. The topology was a two node Windows 2012 cluster with a file share tie breaker as part of the Majority Node and File share Quorum model. The cluster servers were VMware 5.1 Guests and SQL Server 2012 Enterprise was the
In this SQL Server Pro article Save Thousands in Licensing Costs for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Michael Campbell makes a case on why Windows 2012 Standard edition provides the best bang for buck in supporting your AlwaysOn Availability Group implementation.
Flowing on from my previous article Migrating Database Mirroring to an Availability Group I thought it might be worth posting the high level steps that worked for me in converting a SQL Server 2008 R2/Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Database Mirroring implementation into a two node Availability Group environment with the second