AlwaysOn – Example AX TEST environment configuration concepts and points of interest

Consider a scenario where you are running AX 2012 and your Dynamics AX databases are part of a SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG). I’ll discuss some concepts and points of interest below which are relevant when running AX 2012 RTM, R2 or R3. The screenshots are from a VM TEST environment with CONTOSO DEMO DATA that is running AX 2012 R2 CU7 on SQL Server 2012.

1. The environment

There are 4 VMs in the TEST environment

A Domain Controller
SQL Node 1
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