What are benefits of AlwaysOn FailoverClustering vs AlwaysOn Availability Groups? Basic AlwaysOn Failover Clustering provides server level protection, (Eg: 2 servers with 1 shared disk space; if server fails, it can utilize another server on the shared disk space). AlwaysOn Availability Groups provides both diskstorage DR with server-level HA Protection. It provides 2 servers with 2 shared space. (a) so what benefit functionally does AlwaysOn FailoverClustering have over Availability Groups? Seems Availability Groups is better, Looking at the chart comparison I see none (b) Can AlwaysOn Availability Groups utilize with 1 server, 2 shared storage space? (instead of 2 server, 2 shared storage?) [![enter image description here][1]][1] We utilize SQL 2016 Enterprise. Thanks, Reviewed documentation: [Failover Clustering and Always On Availability Groups][2], [SQL AlwaysOn][3] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/FGYz6.png [2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/failover-clustering-and-always-on-availability-groups-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017 [3]: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4717/what-is-sql-server-alwayson/