Hi, i am looking to build out a new SQL 2012 Always on environment.
in my 1st datacentre, i am looking to deploy 2 x Windows 2008R2 datacentre edition servers. 1 server will be running the active SQL 2012 Enterprise edition in active mode, the 2nd server will be the passive SQL 2012 enterprise member within the always on group.
i assume by creating the always on group SQL replication will replicate the data between the two nodes?
i also want a 3rd passive node in my remote data center. can i use SQL 2012 STANDARD Edition for this server and have the active or the passive 2012 Enterprise nodes replicate the data to this remote node using SQL transactional log shipping? this passive node will only be used if the 1st data center becomes unavailable.
Thanks in advance.