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Introducing SQL Server AlwaysOn

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SQL Server AlwaysOn is the new comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery solution in SQL Server 2012. Using AlwaysOn, you can increase application availability and get a better return on your hardware investments through a simplified high availability (HA) deployment and management experience.

See:  FAQ  |  Features in SQL Server 2012

Getting Started

SQL Server AlwaysOn provides availability at either the application database or instance level. Learn more about how to use AlwaysOn to maintain availability at each of these levels.

Database Availability

AlwaysOn Availability Group provides high availability and disaster recover for application databases.
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Key Capabilities and Concepts

Step-by-Step Guide

Instance Availability

AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance enhances the existing failover clustering instance and now provides high availability and disaster recovery for SQL Server Instances.
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Key Capabilities and Concepts

Step-by-Step Guide

Note: The links in this section correspond to the AlwaysOn features found in SQL Server 2012.

Additional Resources

AlwaysOn Team Blog

High Availability and Disaster Recovery Forum

 

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