Hi NJRCI,
According to your description, you can configure AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Azure Virtual Machines. Azure virtual machines (VMs) with SQL Server can help you to lower the cost of a high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) database system. All
availability replicas running in Azure VMs for high availability within the same Azure datacenter. You need to configure a domain controller in addition to the SQL Server virtual machines because Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) requires an Active
Directory domain. For more information, see:
AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Windows Azure (GUI)
This article provides information on how to migrate an existing on-premise SQL Server database built on Windows Server platform to SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj156165.aspx
Regards,
Sofiya Li
Sofiya Li
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