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 diskstorage disaster level protection with high availability. It provides 2 servers with 2 shared space, correct (a) so what benefit functionally does AlwaysOn FailoverClustering have over Availability Groups? Seems Availability Groups is better (b) Can AlwaysOn Availability Groups utilize with 1 server, 2 shared storage space? (instead of 2 server, 2 shared storage?) We utilize SQL 2016 Enterprise. Thanks,