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I have separated 2 datacenters with separated failover windows clusters S2D (DR, DC) under one domain, and I need to know how to create distribution group between both sites while all my servers which host my application (Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012) and database (SQL Server 2016 enterprise) is a virtual machines.
HOW TO GET ALWAYS ON DONE ON VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
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To configure Distributed AG please follow below blog
setup-and-implement-sql-server-2016-always-on-distributed-availability-groups
The process to configure AG on physical and virtual machine is same.
Below is 2 part series for configuring AG
sql-server-alwayson-availability-groups--part-1-configuration
but how to create failover cluster with virtual nodes ?????
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The same way you would do it in any other environment. Add the WSFC role and create a cluster.
As others mentioned, configuring the windows failover cluster on the physical environment is similar to configuring it on the virtual environment. Here is a tutorial video which could help.
And here is a tutorial for configuring Distributed availability group.
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