Hi. Was hoping to get some advice on applying a hotfix to a SQL Server 2005 failover Cluster.
The hotfix I am applying (KB933508) relates to a Maintenance Plans issue with Server 2005 Service Pack 2. During installation I'm advised that unless the SQL Server and other services are stopped a reboot will be required, although I can still install the hotfix. However the installation is failing. There are error details in the relevant logs created in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGHotfix to the effect that the 'Debug' value in registry key 'SoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsInstaller' can't be read and that SQL Server was unable to add a user (the account under which SQL Server Agent and Analysis Services run) to a local group (the domain group in which SQL Server logins are contained).
Is this something simple like explicitly shutting down the services first before applying the hotfix or is there something else going on?
I've got a 4 node SQL 2008R2 cluster (configured 2 active - 2 passive), and 9 instances, of which all but one are on SP1 (the most recent addition is on SP2).
I need to apply a hotfix (Cumulative Update 6 for SP1) to just one instance. Can I do this by failing over the affected instance to one of the passive nodes, applying the hotfix, and failing it back again or do I need to apply the hotfix to all nodes as detailed in:
SQL Server failover cluster rolling patch and service pack process
i.e. will it involve a little downtime for all instances on the cluster?
1. Once fail over to secondary replica, what will happen to connected session in primary node? can the session fail over to secondary seamlessly or need to re-login. what happen committed transactions which has not write to disk. 2. Assume I have always on cluster with three nodes, if primary fails, how second node make write/ read mode. 3. after fail over done to 2nd secondary node what mode in production(readonly or read write). 4. how to rollback to production primary ,will change data in secondary will get updated in primary.
1. In alwaysON fail over cluster, Once fail over to secondary replica, what will happen to connected session in primary node? can the session fail over to secondary seamlessly or need to re-login. what happen committed transactions which has not write to disk.
2. Assume I have always on cluster with three nodes, if primary fails, how second node make write/ read mode.
3. After fail over done to 2nd secondary node what mode in production(readonly or read write).
4. How to rollback to production primary ,will change data in secondary will get updated in primary.
I have two clustered server. (ms sql 2000 server, windows 2003 server) now i need to add one new server to the cluster and take the secondary node off. I have installed SP4 & hotfix in my SQL Server cluster before.
My question is do I still need to install SP4 & hotfix in my new server?
I have a 2 way cluster and I want to apply SP4 on it.
Basically, I have 2 servers. Server A runs a default instance and another instance. While the default services is disabled and the other instance is running, Server B runs the default instance and has the other instance disabled. This basically acts like a 2 way cluster (active/passive).
How can I apply SQL Server 2000 SP4 on the 2 servers and have all the nodes come up the correct way? What are the steps to achieve this?
Hi I just set up a new cluster and everything was working. Now when I try to test failovers like unplug the public network card etc...
The cluster group fails over correctly but my data and log array's dont failover.
So I unplug the network cable from node 1 (active) the cluster group with the IP, name, and Quorum disk fails over to node 2 but the other groups sql data and sql log stay on node1 and dont failover.
I was wondering what will happend to the transaction when the cluster failover from one node to another?
In my case the database is in node-001 and I need to restart the server on node-001. So I need to have the database failover to node-002, so I can work on node-001. During this process, will it effect to end-user?
We need to start testing our Microsoft cluster servers. Has anyone heard of any plan or products one can use to test the failovers? Please advise Thanks Susan
We are running on SQL 2000 on Windows 2003. We have active-passiveclustering set up. We have 16 GB of RAM on each box. This pastweekend, we failed over. I noticed that the Total Server Memory wentfrom about 15.5 GB to 8 GB. I have been trying to figure out why thishas occurred. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We need to install the webservice and the database on a failover cluster. Our plan was to install the web service on node 1 and the database would naturally be on the cluster aware sql service. We know the RS will not be cluster aware and if node1 bites the dust, reports will be out of business.
We were planning to do this tommorow on development, but then found this little tidbit - read the very last paragraph
SQL Server Reporting Services failover cluster configurations that are not supported
Do not deploy both SQL Server Report Services and the reporting services databases on each node of a multi-node cluster. Moreover, do not deploy SQL Server Reporting Services in a two-node cluster environment that consists of an active node and a passive node where the passive node becomes active during a failover.
They don't explain why not to do it - as if it will destroy your machine! This is our main dev cluster and we don't need it to go down.
We will not be installing the RS on each node, just one. But I was thinking that if the dns entry for the service points to N1, it will continue to function and make successfull DB calls to the sql server cluster name.
Could this work? I've found posts of people installing RS on both nodes and having success - but this would probably require another license...which we don't have.
Thanks so much for your help - it is greatly appreciated.
Hello, Does any one know, any software out there that can provide a solid failover / cluster / high availability solution for SQL Server 2000 Databases. I have tried Incepto but it requires an extra column in every single table that involves in Replication and its not gonna work
I have virtualbox installed on my notebook. For testing purpose, is it possible to setup SQL Server Fail-Over cluster using virtual box? I don't have a shared storage. How can I simulate that?
I have a 2-node Windows Cluster and File Share Witness with an availability group. The cluster is set to sync and auto failover. I'm using SQL 2014 and Windows 2012R2. I'm trying to understand the steps to apply Windows Updates that require a restart. Are the steps something like this where ServerA is the primary replica and ServerB is the secondary replica.
Apply updates to ServerB. Restart ServerB. Fail ServerA availability group to ServerB using ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP MyAvailGroup FAILOVER;. Server B is now the primary. Apply updates to ServerA. Restart ServerA. Fail ServerB availability group to ServerA using ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP MyAvailGroup FAILOVER;. Server A is now the primary.
What I don't understand is where Drain Roles on the Failover Cluster Manager fits in?
We have 2 nodes window Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Version cluster setup. We can switch roles and Node to one node to another and revert back to previous node with out any issues. But we are facing when one Node is restarted. We could not restart that Node in cluster Service start in Failover cluster Manager. Error Details is displayed as below inside double code."Cluster node NODE1 could not to join the cluster because it failed to communicate over the network with any other node in the cluster. Verify the network connectivity and configuration of any network firewalls."
I checked windows firewall. windows firewall is all of in Node1, Node2, SAN and DC.I have disabled and enabled the Internal and private network of Node 1. I have validated the cluster. it is showing no error though.
Node1: Public IP: 10.10.0.11 SubNet Mask:255.255.255.0 Default Getway: 10.10.0.1 Prefered DNS: 10.10.0.10 (Ip of DNS)
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Private Network: Not configured.pinging to each other ip is successful from one node to another.
I noticed in installing a SQL2005 failover cluster instance,that it is not necessary to install on both servers. Installing on the primary node automagically installs to the secondary node. Does this constitute a COMPLETE install? It all seems to work. BUT this process does not intall client pieces (SSMS, for instance) on the secondary node. If you want that stuff there, do you then go to that box and just do a client install?
I am trying to install SQL failover cluster on one of my nodes so it should install sql on the 2nd node. It keeps coming back saying setup failed to start on the remote machine. When I look in scheduled tasks it is listed as could not run. Can someone please help.
Hi All,I would like to set up transactional replication with failover cluster.Did anybody tried this? Does it work together? Is there anything Ishould be coutios when I set up these together? or Is there anyglitches?If somebody helps me I will really appreciate itThanks
I have a mystery that I need a little help with. I am trying to install SQL Server 2005 Std Ed. into a two node failover cluster running on top of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Ed.. I have the cluster up and running. It consists of an IP address, cluster name, a shared drive (E:), and an MSDTC resource. When I run the SQL Server 2005 setup, the failover cluster option is always grayed out. I have tried installing from the active node and from the cluster virtual server. The result is always the same, no option to install a failover cluster. Some suggestions would be appreciated. I have read all the online docs I could find related to SQL 2005 failover clusters and found no clue.
We have sql server 2005 installed locally on 2 servers and want to set up failover clustering. Do we need to uninstall what we have then install as failover cluster? Thanks.
When trying to install SQL 2005 as a failover cluster in a Windows 2003 64 bit SP 2 cluster, I receive the following error when trying to select the installation path after choosing to install as a failover cluster.
_________________________ TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Setup ------------------------------ The drive specified cannot be used for program location. Program files must be installed on a valid local disk available on all cluster nodes. The valid values are __________________________
There is a knowledge base artical that says this can be from not installing the software with an account with admin permissions on all the servers in the cluster with the 64 bit install, but the account I used is an admin on both servers.
The only thing that I can think is causing the problem is that it is setup to boot from our SAN and it is using one fabric. By default Microsoft Clustering doesnt like this, but we use the newest storeport driver and applied the registry key supplied in KB article 886569 to resolve this. I could not find any documentation showing that this would limit a SQL 2005 Failover Cluster from seeing the shared storage.
I am using SQL 2012 SE with clustering on Windows server 2008 R2. Now I want migrate it to windows server 2012 with minimal down time. So I want to evict the passive node and add a new node with windows server 2012 and install sql server 2012 SE on the new passive node and perform a failover(make the node with 2012 OS as active) and then evict the new passive node and add another node with windows 2012 and then do the same thing?
I am trying to create a failover cluster without the log shipping in 2012 as i've done it with a static instance with some database.Is the "AlwaysON" feature the solution when an application creates random and numerous databases within the instance and we need a failover scenario ?
I have a multisubnet cluster over two datacentres, a node at each site with a FS witness at a separate site.
I'm using availability groups on top of this (synchronous, auto failover)
Using any non default failover policies?
Has experiment with the File Share Witness policies? Testing my config with the default values, I find that the cluster group will failover each time I reboot or turn off the quorum server.
I've a problem with my failover cluster. It's a two node cluster and if the active node fails, the second one overtake the database and everything is fine. But only the reporting service doesn't start on the second node. The service is off. All other ones are starting correctly. Is there to configure something special to the Reporting Services?
I have a production failover cluster running SQL Server 2000 at SP3that I want to upgrade to SP4. I do not have a test failover clusterto test with so I need the install on the primary server to work thefirst time. Per the information I have I just install the patch on theprimary server and it will install both on the primary and on thesecondary.However, I remember when I did the initial install and it failed. Thefirst problem traced to the fact that the install uses temporary filesunder the profile of the installing administrator and the id had neverlogged into the second server so the install failed on creating thetemporary file. The was a second problem that related to an OS featurethat had to be off for the install to work.If anyone out there has done this upgrade and remembers encountering aproblem and its fix/workaround I would appreciate a head up warning.Thank you-- Mark D Powell --
I'm getting the following error when I go to create a cluster in the Failover Cluster Manager in Windows Server 2008.
"The address 10.10.10.111 is not valid for its associated network"
I'm following the instruction in the book for the 70-462 exam. There was a step that had me create a DNS A record for the address sql-cluster.contoso.com. The IP address was mapped to 10.10.10.111. I'm not sure if this is the culprit but its the only time I used that IP address in the setup.
Below are 2 screenshots. The first screenshot is the error. The second screenshot is my DNS console.
I saw following point on Technet article about RBS.The local FILESTREAM provider is supported only when it is used on local hard disk drives or an attached Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) device. You cannot use the local RBS FILESTREAM provider on remote storage devices such as network attached storage (NAS).It looks like that we cannot use FILESTREAM on Failover Cluster because to setup Failover Cluster we need to have NAS. But then the NAS is made available locally for Failover Cluster so FILESTREAM should work right?Found another article which talks about setting up FILESTREAM on Failover Cluster. URL...
