参考了这两篇文章:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff877884.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa427606-8422-4656-b205-c9e665ddc8c1
什么是AlwaysOn Availability Groups, 下面这句话说的很明了:
The AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature is a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution that provides an enterprise-level alternative to database mirroring. Introduced in SQL Server 2012.
Availability Groups的结构
首先Deploying AlwaysOn Availability Groups requires a Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) cluster. Each availability replica of a given availability group must reside on a different node of the same WSFC cluster.