AlwaysOn on Virtual m/c

Question

I wanted to understand the difference in setting up the Always on high availability feature on Physical infrastructure Vs Virtual environment ( VMWare ESX).

Answer 1

I am not so sure what you are aiming at... The setup is pretty much the same....

Answer 2

I have used Hyper-V machine to setup AlwaysOn. I created 5 machines: 1 DC, 4 Nodes.

It was a smooth process. What is the error you are facing?

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Answer 3

Hi Satish,

from an Always On point of view the setup is exactly the same.

Regards

Régis

Answer 4

There is no diff  wrt to AlwaysOn. however, there are some limitations about the # of CPUs that the SQL can recongize between physical and virtual servers.

Answer 5

Here's E2E video tutorial I created to evaluate W2008R2 + SQL denali CTP1

Prepare one box Virtual lab to evaluate SQL Server Denali Always-ON Features

For latest on Windows server 8 Hyper-V and SQL 2012 RTM test lab see latest series on www.sqlfeatures.com

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Lab boot from VHD

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Prakash Heda | Sr Infrastructure DBA | Advent Software | http://www.sqlfeatures.com