S26.E0315 - Migrating Legacy SQL Server FCI to SQL Availability Groups on Nutanix AHV

Join us as we deconstruct a highly complex, mission-critical database migration. We explore the strategic shift from legacy SQL Server 2016 Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) to a modern, shared-nothing SQL Server 2022 Always On Availability Group architecture hosted on Nutanix AHV.

Discover the intricacies of leveraging Distributed Availability Groups, a powerful feature that allows you to span two separate availability groups across different physical or virtual clusters to achieve near-zero downtime cutovers. We also dive into the critical role of manual database seeding across major…