First published on MSDN on Jan 26, 2012
Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781257.aspx
Summary
: This white paper discusses how to reduce planned and unplanned downtime, maximize application availability, and provide data protection using SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
A key goal of this paper is to establish a common context for related discussions between business stakeholders, technical decision makers, system architects, infrastructure engineers, and database administrators.
The content is presented in two major parts:
High Availability and Disaster Recovery Concepts
. Provide a brief discussion of the drivers and challenges of planning, managing, and measuring the business objectives of a highly available database environment. This discussion is followed by a brief overview of the high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn and Windows Server solutions.
SQL Server AlwaysOn Layers of Protection
. Provide a deeper discussion of the feature capabilities, rationale, and dependencies of the layers of protection offered by a SQL Server AlwaysOn solution. It will cover infrastructure availability, SQL Server instance-level protection, database-level protection, and data tier application capabilities.
