FTdenali (7/27/2015)
SQL 2008 R2 enterprise with SP2 and CU.the current environment is running Windows 2008 R2 enterprise.
It would make sense to update the Windows OS platform too as Windows 2008 R2 is already at least 6 years old, something to consider!
FTdenali (7/27/2015)
One more thing, ALWAYSON availability groups are only available on windows 2012 or can I have the feature on windows 2008 R2 as well?
Windows Server 2008 is the minimum requirement for AlwaysOn Availability groups, more may be found at this link
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