• Hikmer (1/27/2014)


    what I am lacking is a guide to combine Fail-over Clustering with AlwaysOn Availability.

    I have a guide being published soon on SSC showing how to achieve this, starting from scratch.

    Hikmer (1/27/2014)


    I have two 2 node failover cluster environments (SQL 012 with shared disks, etc.) and want to create an Availability group between them for added redundancy and DR....however I cannot figure out how to do it..or even if it is possible.

    All nodes that have an instance, clustered or non clustered, that is to participate in an AO group must be part of the same windows cluster. What you are attempting is possible but only for migration purposes, it is not a supported permanent solution, as objects (like the listener) cannot move between clusters.

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