Setting up AlwaysOn Availability Groups with SQL Server 2012

You can set up AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AAG) with SQL Server 2012 in your vSphere environment.

vSphere 6.0 supports the following deployments of AAG:

• Using Availability Groups (AG) for high availability and disaster recovery solution (Non-shared disk configuration).
• Using Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) for high availability, and Availability Groups (AG) for disaster recovery solution (Shared Disk Configuration).

When working in a vSphere environment:

• Use virtual machines instead of physical machines as the cluster components.
• If the boot disks of the AAG virtual machines are on a SAN, see MSCS and Booting from a SAN.

For more information, see Microsoft's documentation for AAG on the Microsoft Web site.