Usually, Database Administrators are responsible for configuring availability groups in an organization. We can also configure database backups from the secondary instance. It also supports to offload some read workloads to the secondary replica. SQL Server Always On Availability Groups offers high availability and disaster recovery solution for mission-critical databases. We use SQL Server 2019 for configuration. Wait until Windows installation is finished.In this article, we will configure a SQL Server Always On Availability Group on the Windows Server 2016. I chose the advanced option of just installing Windows. Windows installation screen will be displayed. Select Windows 10 OS from VirtualBox main screen and click “Start”. Select ISO file download in previous step. Remove any empty optical drive that may exist.Ĭlick on button “Adds new storage attachement” > “Adds optical drive”. Name your OS and select the correct OS version (in my case it was “Windows 10 (64-bit)”. Open Virtual Box by going to Start > Oracle VM VirtualBox. I used a USB memory stick (filesize is 3,90 GB). When it proposes to burn ISO on CD, just click on “Finish”.įind the newly created “Windows.iso” file and copy or send it to your Linux/Ubuntu computer.When askw which media to use, select “ISO file.Select language, architecture and edition.Select ‘Create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) for another PC.Run the tool from a Windows computer and follow these ISO creation steps: Visit Microsoft Media Creation Tool from this link.ĭownload “Microsoft Media Creation Tool”. If everything is fine, you will get this output: Sudo apt-key add ~/Downloads/oracle_vbox_2016.asc In my case, file was in Downloads folder so I used this command: Go to the terminal and enter the command below: You may have to right click on link and select “Save as”. Here for Debian 8 (“Jessie”) / Ubuntu 16.04 (“Xenial”) and later.Substitute by your distribution name (in my case it was xenial).ĭownload Oracle public key for apt-secure: Go to Start > Software & Updates > Other Software > Button ‘Add…’Įnter the following APT line in the input box, substituting by your distribution name (in my case it was xenial).: I installed VirtualBox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). VirtualBox is a free and open source virtualization software from Oracle. There are different virtual machines available for Linux/Ubuntu, but in this tutorial we are using Oracle VM VirtualBox.

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