Comparison of SQL Server HA & DR solutions and comparison
No | SQL FCI with S2D | Alwasy On AG | Description |
---|---|---|---|
1 | MSDTC is not in pre Azure Win 2019 | Available from SQL 2016 SP2 onwards | Official link |
2 | Good for large no of database | MSFT only tested upto 100 DBs | |
3 | Fail over 30+secs | Fail over 1 secs | |
4 | Required shared storage | Each node stores | |
5 | DR to be done separately | One async node can be for DR | |
6 | FileStream needs non CSV volumne | Works natively | |
7 | No read from secondary | Support reading secondary read | |
8 | Full instance fail over | Group of databases can fail over | |
9 | No automatic page repair | automatic page repair | |
10 | Full feature in Standard edition | Enterprise only. Standard has basic |
https://blog.coeo.com/is-this-the-end-of-sql-server-failover-cluster-instances