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Cross-cluster Migration of AlwaysOn Availability Groups for Operating System Upgrades

SQL Server Technical Article

Summary: SQL Server 2012 SP1 introduces support for cross-cluster migration of AlwaysOn Availability Groups deployments to another Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) cluster. This document introduces the migration process and new Transact-SQL options that support migration. The document then presents planning considerations, preparation steps, and a procedure for cross-cluster migration. Finally, this document discusses possible follow-up tasks.

Writer: Min He (Microsoft) and Margi Showman (Microsoft)

Technical Reviewer: Robert Dorr, Wayne Chen, Jimmy May, Zhenyu Zhao, and Sonia Parchani

Content Program Manager: Glenn Minch (Microsoft)

Published: December 2012

Applies to: AlwaysOn Availability Groups on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)

To review the document, please download the Cross-cluster Migration of AlwaysOn Availability Groups for Operating System Upgrades Word document and the related code files, PowerShellForOSUPG.zip.

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