• Hi,

    Always On Failover Clustering in standard edition is simply failover clustering. It does not offer you read only replicas that is an enterprise only feature so offloading reporting would have to be done by other means.

    In standard edition you can have a 2 node cluster, the nodes can be co-located or geographically separate.

    Hope that helps a little.

    Thanks,

    Simon



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