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Always On Availability Groups is an enterprise-level high-availability and disaster recovery solution introduced in SQL
Server 2012 to enable you to maximize availability for one or more user databases. Always On Availability Groups
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requires that the SQL Server instances reside on Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) nodes.
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SQL Server Installation

AlWays on availability group requires the standard installation, "New SQL Server stand-alone installation..." follow the
instructions and Click Next, Next, Next, Install

Failover Cluster Installation

First, we need to add the Windows Failover Cluster Feature to all the nodes running the SQL Server instances that we
will configure as replicas.

Open the Server Manager  => select Add roles and features.

Click Next till Select Features dialog box.

  Select the Failover Clustering checkbox

Click Install to install the Failover Clustering feature.

Windows Failover Clustering

Configuration for Always On Availability
Groups
Open Server Manager and select "Fail over Cluster Manager".

Select Failover Cluster Manager and select the Option Create Cluster OR You can right-click on the Failover Cluster
Manager and select Create Cluster menu.

You will Create Cluster Wizard

Add the Nodes you want be in the Cluster and then click Next

You will be getting a validation warning. Select Yes to Validate the Cluster nodes

 Select the option Run all tests

NOTE: The Cluster Validation Wizard is expected to return several Warning messages, especially if you will not be using
shared storage. Other than that if you find any error messages you need to fix them prior to creating the Windows
Server Failover Cluster.

In the Access Point for Administering the Cluster dialog box, enter the Cluster name and virtual IP address for Windows
Server Failover Cluster , then click Next.

Verify that the configuration is successful in Summary.

Configure Cluster Quorum Settings

Quorum is that it is a configuration database for the cluster and is stored on a shared location, accessible to all of the
nodes in a cluster.

In Case of Even number of nodes (but not a multi-site cluster) Node and Disk Majority Quorum configuration is
recommended. If you don't have a shared storage Node and File Share Majority is recommended. Here it will be
configuring a FileShare Witness quorum.

It is recommended that you configure the quorum size to be 500 MB. This size is the minimum required for an efficient
NTFS partition. Larger sizes are allowable but are not currently needed.

Click on Your Cluster Select Configure Cluster Quorum Setting from the More action menu.

 In the Select Quorum Witness page, select the Configure a file share witness option. Click Next.

Type the path of the file share that you want to use in the File Share Path: text box. Click Next.

It is recommended to have the share folder on a different node than the node participating on Cluster

 In the Confirmation page, click Next.

In the Summary page, click Finish.

Enable AlwaysOn Availability Groups

Feature on SQL Server 2016
We can now proceed with enabling the AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature in SQL Server 2016. This is possible after
install and configuring the Windows Failover Cluster on all the nodes.

Open SQL Server Configuration Manager - > SQL Server Properties - [SQL Server (SQLAG01)]

In the Properties dialog box, select the AlwaysOn High Availability tab. Check the Enable AlwaysOn Availability Groups
check box. This will prompt you to restart the SQL Server service. Click OK.

Restart the SQL Server service.

Configure SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn

Availability Groups
Go to Management Studio, right click Availability Groups and click New Availability Group Wizard.

Specify Availability Group Name . This group name is SQLAVG2016. Then click Next.

Choose Database

Here you can see whether the DB meets the prerequisites

Database should be in full recovery mode. 

You should make a full backup to add the DB into the Availability Group

Specify Replicas

This page applies to the New Availability Group Wizard and the Add Replica to Availability Group Wizard of SQL Server
2016.

If a server instance that you to use to host a secondary replica is not listed by the Availability Replicas grid, click the Add
Replica button.

Add Azure Replica button to create virtual machines with secondary replicas in Windows Azure.

Adding Secondary Replica

Endpoints

Use this tab to verify any existing database mirroring endpoints and also, if this endpoint is lacking on a server instance
whose service accounts use Windows Authentication, create the endpoint automatically.

Backup Preference

Use this tab to specify your backup preference for the availability group as a whole and your backup priorities for the
individual availability replicas.

Listener
An availability group listener is a virtual network name (VNN) to which clients can connect in order to access a database
in a primary or secondary replica of an AlwaysOn availability group. You point applications to the listener (which is
registered with DNS) and directs traffic in the AG.

Select Data Synchronization

Use the Always On Select Initial Data Synchronization page to indicate your preference for initial data synchronization
of new secondary databases. This page is shared by three wizards—the New Availability Group Wizard, the Add Replica
to Availability Group Wizard, and the Add Database to Availability Group Wizard.

The possible choices include Full, Join only, or Skip initial data synchronization. Before you select Full or Join only ensure
that your environment meets the prerequisites.

For each primary database, the Full option performs several operations in one workflow: create a full and log backup of
the primary database, create the corresponding secondary databases by restoring these backups on every server
instance that is hosting a secondary replica, and join each secondary database to availability group.

Select this option only if your environment meets the following prerequisites for using full initial data synchronization,
and you want the wizard to automatically start data synchronization.

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Comments
Roland_vanderKruk 10 Jul 2017 5:20 AM

suddenly halfway the article, configuration of the SQL server starts, where I expected the installation of the SQL
server software to be described. This is in my opinion is an essential part of this instruction. Do I install the
standard SQL server, or do I choose 'New SQL Server failover cluster installation' from the SQLserver ISO??? Or
'New SQL Server stand-alone installation...'?? Some information should be added about this.

ShabSQL 21 Aug 2017 1:05 AM

Hi Roland ,  For Always on availability group SQL installation required is " New SQL Server stand-alone
installation.."  

sandeepk 8 Jan 2018 5:40 AM

Hi, I want to understand here that, for SQL Always ON,

- Do I have to install SQL on both the nodes before configure Windows cluster

- The both separate installed SQL nodes should have same instance name (same named instance)

- As i will installed SQL on both nodes locally, the databases will create on local SQL servers before add into
cluster

Qazi Sajjad Ahmed 10 Sep 2018 12:42 AM

Is there any limitation how many DAGs we can create in SQL 2014

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