There are three main ways to deploy Always On Availability Groups (AGs) and Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) -- physical hardware, virtualized, and Infrastructure as a Service in the public cloud. Those are just three of the factors that influence how AGs and FCIs are planned, deployed and administered. This session cuts right to the chase and will give you top tips, tricks, dos, and don'ts for successfully deploying and administering AGs and FCIs to be an availability hero back home.

You will learn:

• Best practices for planning, deploying and administering AGs
• Best practices for planning, deploying and administering FCIs
• How platform choice and OS choice can influence AGs and FCIs