I am working on a simple proof-of-concept (POC) SQL 2012 AlwaysOn high availability group and I cannot seem to get SQL to recognize both servers as being failover clusters. I have two valid (so I think) failover clusters setup on Server 2012 virtual machines with instance names SQL2012Cluster\SQL2012Cluster & SQLReplica respectively. Both servers have AlwaysOn Availability Groups turned on and I can get to the point using the new availability group wizard then I want to add replicas before receiving the following error:
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The specified instance of SQL Server is hosted by a system that is not a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) node. (Microsoft.SQLServer.Management.HadrTasks).
I have attached two screen shots of the same error that I receive when attempting to create the group from either of the two POC nodes.
What am I missing to get AlwaysOn working properly? Am I missing a particular service(s) that need to be clustered as well as SQL?
Thanks!
Mick