Create a network share for a SQL Server availability group

Create a network share that can be accessed by each of the SQL Server machines that will belong to the SQL Server availability group. The network share can be located anywhere, provided that:

• For the primary replica, the account used to start the Database Engine service has read and write file-system permissions on the network share.

• For secondary replicas, the account has read permission on the network share.

This share will be used to restore the PI AF SQL database to each of the secondary replicas.