Domain Independent Availability Groups

Hi emily thank you for sharing the links.

Domain independent availability groups. I looked up online and as per documentations we can create a multisite domain independant ag for sql server with some caveats. Domain independent sql availability groups on azure vms multi region. Anyone worked with multi site domain independant ags.

And for sql server 2017 there was a requirement to support linux which obviously doesn t have windows domains and you can read about that here. This is the 11 th article in this series. 1 created a windows fail over cluster with 2 vms located in.

The technology has been around for a while but a lot of dbas are not aware of it. Can anyone hear shed more light on the matter. Steps to configure domain independent failover cluster for sql server always on availability groups as a part of the prerequisite i have prepared two virtual machines sqlag1 and sqlag2.

Did you know that you can have a windows cluster that is a domain independent cluster and run a sql server availability group on top of it. As part of a poc i am in the process of creating a domain independent or ad detached cluster and then create a sql availability group on azure vms using windows 2016 sql 2016. In the previous article deploy a domain independent windows failover cluster for sql server always on availability groups we learned the new capability in windows server 2016 to configure a domain independent windows failover cluster.

What is a domain independent cluster. This article continues from the series on sql server always on availability group. Windows server 2019 sql server standard 2019 3 basic ag with listeners setup.

Both virtual machines are not part of any domain. Our nodes are not joined to a domain. All the glory belongs to windows since that is where the magic resides.