K great... Although I do have to install this FCI tomorrow and wanted to understand it as much as possible by then as to not start it over.

Any draft versions...

So I do need a level 5?

As i need a complete FCI install

So you are saying that all i need to follow is up to step 4 of your series for what i need leaving out the AG?

I am somewhat confused as the guide for an " AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance" mentions the creation of "Availability groups".

If my application is constantly creating new databases, do I need...

Thanks again... will report back if I have any other questions as this is new setup for me...

I found some articles that may...

Great thx for that 🙂

Would there...

I am trying to setup HA on all existing and new databases within an instance.

New databases are constantly added and all databases would be available on a secondary node with...

Indeed as I see it would be the only solution and would there be a good documentation for a newbie?

AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances

As part of...

That is indeed my dilemma as new databases will be added continuously to the instance 🙁

What would be the best solution ?

Thanks for the reply...and sorry for the confusion.

I need to propose a 2 server clustering / failover solution with SQL 2012 and it seems that the log shipping feature will...

What if we have to perform a switchover to the DR node and activate the ReportServer DB ( in NO RECOVERY MODE ) with...

Great thank you for your reponse ! I guess this is more complexe then I had planned.

Since I have installed the binairies on the first node but cannot remove features...

Ok thanks , indeed strange

Problem solved.... someone had made an incomplete copy of the software :rolleyes:

thanks all