Good morning,
I'm looking to deploy Basic Availability Groups on SQL Server 2016.
Here is my scenario:
1- I have a 2 nodes-Vmware VSAN
2- I have 2 Windows Server 2016 Standard virtual servers
3 -The 2 servers will be in cluster with WSFC
4 -I have 3 databases to configure in availability groups
Is it possible to install 3 instances of SQL Server Standard Edition on CAL based licensing with Software Assurance on the first server (1 instance for each database), and install for free 3 Standard instances on the second server for the replicas? (only for that)
If one database is active on the second node (after a failover) and the two others are active on the first server, is it OK? Or if a failover occurs, all active databases must be on the same node?
Thank you for your help!