Azure In Pictures: SQL Server Always On Availability Group

The figure below is a graphical representation of SQL Server availability group solution  in Azure for HADR consisting of the following elements:
  • A virtual network containing multiple subnets, including a front-end and a back-end subnet
  • Two domain controller with an Active Directory (AD) domain
  • Two SQL Server VMs deployed to the back-end subnet and joined to the AD domain
  • A 3-node WSFC cluster with the Node Majority quorum model
  • An availability group with two synchronous-commit replicas of an availability database
You can reduce the number of virtual machines by using a domain controller as the quorum file share witness. This would reduce the number of VMs for a two-replica availability group

Related:
Creating SQL Server 2014 Always On Availability Group in an existing Azure VNET and Active Directory instance
SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Listener configuration with Azure External Load Balancer

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