Question about Always On

High Availability
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This is my first time setting up Always On. It will be with SQL2022. From researching on line, it looks like the first step is to create a Windows Failover Cluster then install SQL as standalone on each server. After that, set up Always On.

My network team is telling me there is no need for a Windows Failover Cluster and that it's all done with SQL Server. That doesn't seem correct to me but as it's my first time installing Always On, I am not exactly sure.

Can anyone set me straight? The reason for this is that apparently the new version of Solarwinds requires Always On to be set up.

Thanks in advance.

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So I will need our network team to set up a Windows failover cluster what a shared cluster name, correct?

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It could be anyone in your IT administrative team who has the necessary domain privileges to create a cluster.

The "related content" section in the above linked article has more specifics on creating the cluster and configuring it properly for Availability Groups.

FYI, AlwaysOn is a marketing term, and applies to more than Availability Groups. The correct description of what you're trying to do is: setting up Availability Groups.