Always On: New Availability Group via Wizard

Specify Name

• Enter name of availability group.

Specify Databases

• Database must meet prerequisites requirements.
• Full recovery mode is required.

Specify Replicas

• “Add Replica” as Secondary role
• Select “Automatic Failover” for each server
• Select “Synchronous Commit” for each server
• Select “Readable Secondary” for each server

Select Data Synchronization

• “Full” – when you want the wizard to automatically backup the primary database and restore to secondary database.
• “Join only” – when you want to manually backup and restore the database.

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