SQL Server AlwaysOn is the new high availability and disaster recovery solution for the next release of SQL Server. Using AlwaysOn businesses can achieve increased application availability for their ...

The SQL Server AlwaysOn Template, depicted below, is found in the Gallery under “Virtual Machines” and “Recommended”. After selecting it, it will show a description of the configuration that will be ...

Azure virtual machines (VMs) can help database administrators to implement lower the cost of a high availability SQL Server system. This tutorial shows you how to implement an availability group using ...

This article will present the SQL Server 2012-2014 AlwaysOn Availability Group feature and describe how-to implement a virtualized AlwaysOn Cluster with four WS2012 R2 Core nodes and four Availability ...

From “SQL Server Configuration Manager” console edit the “SQL Server (<instance>)” service properties. In the “ AlwaysOn High Availability” tab, check the box “ Enable AlwaysOn Availability Groups “.

To use PowerShell, see the tutorial of the same scenario at Configure AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Azure with PowerShell. At the end of the tutorial, your SQL Server AlwaysOn solution in Azure will ...

Microsoft announced five Windows Azure improvements yesterday, including SQL Server AlwaysOn support. Most of the improvements to Microsoft's cloud-based Windows Azure are at the "general ...

That doesn't sound right to me. All the AlwaysOn configurations I have seen clustered hosts with SQL 2012, never a DC. Also, how would you cluster Windows Server 2008R2 Standard instances.