Not sure about TDE.

But to Add the Database back to AlwaysON.

1. Check to see that the database does not exists on the secondary node. If it does then remove...

Does the other Server have VMWare Tools installed?

normally you can't..

http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/01/how-to-extract-host-information-from.html

On the JOB

On the Job Steps Properties

in the General Section

in the Database do you have MASTER or a a different database?

If you have a different database that is part...

Nikhil, please look at the following Microsoft Article: Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781257.aspx)

In theory, what you are...

What Perry is referring is that when you go to the Properties of the Availability Group you can change the Failover Mode from Automatic to Manual.

But if I change...

Perry, I don't have multiple AG Groups on my servers.

I'm conscious of what you are saying.

one AG Group is just pure SharePoint. All DBs failover.

Another it has multiple DBs...

Normally when you do the FailOver on the AlwaysON High Availability Group the Primary Node A will change the ROLE over to Node B.

If you don't do it through the...

•To prevent the availability group from unintended failovers during the upgrade process, remove availability failover from all synchronous-commit replicas before you begin.

1. Open your Windows FailOver Cluster Manager .

2. Check which node owns the Role (A or B).

3. Pause the Secondary node (so that the Primary knows is down)

4. Patch the...

We have 4 AlwaysOn High Availability Clusters. Not the same as Active/Passive but similar.

1. The only problem is with the cluster losing connectivity when VEEAM does it's backups.

We had...