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Can anyone confirm if SQL Server 2012 is supported on an Azure Windows Server 2016 Failover Clusters? (Specifically the quorum configuration) The documentation seems to indicate that only SQL Server 2016 onwards is supported for quorum witness configurations but I can't think of any technical reason why this would be?
Thanks
Nick
So after logging a call with Microsoft it turns out this was a documentation error. The documentation has now been updated to remove the SQL restrictions on quorum resource to leave just the OS support requirements.
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Thanks for sharing the update and the resolution.
Hi,
You can run SQL Server Server 2012 clusters with Premium file shares:
Failover cluster instances with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/virtual-machines/windows/failover-cluster-instance-overview
Best regards,
Leon
Thanks for that, but the Quorum information show's that SQL 2012 isn't supported?
