Building a Multinode AlwaysOn Configuration
Now, let’s build a multinode AlwaysOn configuration, create the clustering configuration, define the availability group, specify the databases roles, replicate the databases, and get our availability group listener up and running, as follows:
1. Verify SQL Server instances are alive and well (exist).
2. Set up WSFC.
3. Prepare the database.
4. Enable AlwaysOn HA.
5. Back up the primary databases.
6. Create the availability group.
7. Select the databases for the availability group.
8. Identify the primary and secondary replicas.
9. Synchronize the data (primary to replica).
10. Set up the listener (availability group listener).
11. Connect using the listener.
12. Fail over to a secondary.
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