1. SharePoint 2013 & SQL Server 2012 Availability Groups The Rough Guide

3. About Me SharePoint consultant. Platform architect. Speaker. Trainer. Accidental DBA.

4. Agenda

5. Acronym Soup Setting the stage…

6. HA

7. DR

8. RPO

9. RTO

10. RPO & RTO in Perspective time RPORTO last backup at 20:00full recovery at 12:00 outage at 08:00 12h 4h

11. SLA

12. Before SQL 2012

13. Failover Clustering

14. Mirroring

15. SharePoint & Mirroring

16. Log Shipping

17. Common Topologies

18. Other Techniques

19. Availability Groups

20. SQL 2012 AlwaysOn

21. AG Concepts

22. Introducing AG

23. Protecting SharePoint

24. Other AG Benefits

25. Comparing Techniques SQL Server solutionPotential data loss (RPO) Potential recovery time (RTO) Automatic failoverReadable secondaries AlwaysOn Availability Group (synchronous- commit) ZeroSecondsYes0 - 2 AlwaysOn Availability Group (asynchronous- commit) SecondsMinutesNo0 - 4 AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance Does not apply An FCI itself does not provide data protection. The amount of data loss depends on the storage system implementation. Seconds to minutesYesDoes not apply Database mirroring - High-safety (synchronous mode + witness server) ZeroSecondsYesDoes not apply Database mirroring - High-performance (asynchronous mode) SecondsMinutesNoDoes not apply Backup, copy, restore Hours or zero if the tail of the log can be accessed after the failure. Hours to daysNoNot during a restore

26. SharePoint Databases

27. Requirements

28. Set Up

29. Steps

30. Install WSFC on all nodes

31. Validate & Configure WSFC

32. Install SQL Server on all nodes

33. Activate AG

35. SharePoint HA/DR with AG

36. SharePoint HA

37. SharePoint DR

38. SQL Server 2014

39. Hot or Not?

40. Getting Started – Resources

41. Q & A

42. THANK YOU