Lee Markum builds an environment:
First of all, this will be a blog post series. There is simply too much to cover in one blog post and expect people to read it. This blog post is going to be about how I laid the foundation for what I was planning to build.
At the end of the process, I had a fully functional, four machine lab that looks like the below. I used Windows Server 2025 OS Evaluation Edition. I created a Windows Cluster and set up an Availability Group.
Lee points out some of the difficulties along the way, and I agree that it looks pretty frustrating.