Lab for AlwaysOn

Question

Experts,

Wanted to do some tests for alwayson. Does microsoft still provide labs for a specific period where alwayson AG or FCI setups are made available for practice/tests

Answer 1

Just checking if there's any progress or updates?

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Answer 2

Hi,

It seems the Microsoft virtual lab is no longer available.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bb467605(v=msdn.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

But SQL Server 2019 provides a free developer edition. It includes all the functionality of Enterprise edition, but is licensed for use as a development and test system, not as a production server. You can use this resource to build and configure your Always on availability group/FCI environment.

Answer 3

Pretty sure the microsoft labs are gone now. You can either do your testing on Azure free trial or download evaluations from here.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/

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