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General availability of SQL Server 2019 will enable additional production uses cases such as Production Always On groups, where the Always On Listener construct becomes a load balancer for the primary application. Rolling upgrades will become the norm for production environments, greatly simplifying the SQL Server patch and update process. Also, in the near future, XtremIO Virtual Copies will seed larger Always On replicas, as it currently does with virtual machine nodes.