Microsoft supports SQL Server on Linux, and it has many of the same features as the Windows version. You can restore databases from Windows to Linux SQL or vice versa. The Linux SQL works with Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE enterprise, Kubernetes containers, and Docker.
Windows-based SQL instance supports SQL Server Always On Availability Groups for high availability and disaster recovery. If you are not familiar with Windows AG configuration, refer to the extensive series on Always on Availability Group (Toc at the bottom).
If you have both Windows and Linux SQL Server, is it possible to configure an availability group between them? Let’s explore this in this article.
This example uses async mode, which is the easier one to set up. With synchronous, you’re probably looking at using Pacemaker to sort out AG status.
Clusters are not required for synchronous commit
And that’s what I get for going off of a faulty memory. Thanks for the correction.