Do you need to enable Always on Availabilty on all the instances or only the instance you need to ?. We have 4 instances on a 5 node cluster and we only need one instance for the Always on to be enabled. Do we need to enable on all 4 instances ?
View 4 RepliesCan we set up always on availability groups in  server 2012 standard edition.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have four instances and each instance have its own Availability Group with its own listener.
Would like to know if you can have one listener for multiple Availability groups?
We had 3 Availability Groups set up in SQL 2012 last year but they were poorly named so I am just looking to rename them but there doesn't seem to be any command for it that I can find.Can they not be renamed once created? I guess I could just create new ones and move the DB's into them but just thought I would check!
View 1 Replies View RelatedWe are planning to upgrade our production servers from mirroring to alwayson. Our current mirror setup gives the advantage that it can failover a single database.To have a similar setup in alwayson we are probably going to create an availability group per database. Any other disadvantage in this except for the extra initial configuration work?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWe have multiple SQL 2012 SQL servers setup in an alwaysOn availability groups. Where should we schedule the re-index? We have Server1 as the primary and 2 secondaries Server2 and Server3. Are their any tricks to have it run on which ever one is the primary?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow do I add my second (secondary) node in my AlwaysOn Availability Group, after adding my head node, and the secondary node is a virtual machine. See based on the attached file if it is the correct way?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow to test always on availablity after configuring them.I have configured always on group with 1 active and 1 passive with readonly.I want to test from application.what are cases which we can have for testing.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWe have a SQLServer 2012 Always-On Availability (AAG) Primary and Secondary Node installation/environments. On the Primary node, we have some databases that have the TRUSTWORTHY option enabled (Set to ON). But when the databases are synched/added to the AAG the databases loose the TRUSTWORTHY property and are reset to OFF on the Secondary Node.Because of this,When the instance fails over to the Secondary Node the applications that were working don’t work anymore.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI couldn't reply the another thread so I'm continuing here.
Was about "Enable user SQL instances" and the Report Service didn€™t started too.
How do I enable this remote connections?
And in the instalation, Should I Add a user to the SQL Server Administration Role?
And also in the step "ready to install" of the SQL Server SP2 shows the following:
The following components will be installed:
· SQL Server Database Services (Upgrade)
(Database Services, Replication, Full-Text Search)
· Reporting Services
(Reporting Services, Report Manager)
· Client Components (Upgrade)
(Connectivity Components, Management Studio Express)
Warning: Setup found that the following components that already exist are at a different service pack level than the components being installed.
Components: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Express Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQLEXPRESS)
After completing setup, you must download and apply the latest SQL Server 2005 service pack to all the components.
I have MasterDataServices installed on a server and the database is in an AlwaysOn Availability Group.The MDM front end currently is set up incorrectly and is referencing NodeA (primary node) for its database.I want to fix this but im unsure if i should:
-point the MDM front end to the cluster name, so it wont matter what server the databsae is on?
-create an Availability Group Listner, which would also decoupple the database referenced from a particular server.
I am using SQL Server 2012 and my AlwaysOn High Availability features is not enabled? What should I do. Is this requires any extra system requirements to be installed?
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe MSDN doc makes it sound like after a failover of the primary, the CDC data won't "keep working" on the secondary unless you "To allow the logreader to proceed further and still have disaster recovery capacity, remove the original primary replica from the availability group using ALTER AVAILABITY GROUP <group_name> REMOVE REPLICA. Then add a new secondary replica to the availability group."
We have a few CDC tracked tables that we use and the general idea of AlwaysOn I thought was to minimize all the overhead and let things "just work" so your apps just connect and the listener re-routes everything where it needs to go.
It looks like to get this working properly an automated job /trigger would have to wait for a failover event and then kick off tasks to remove and re-add the replica and perhaps start up the CDC job on the secondary?
I have Configured always on Availability groups between Server 1 Primary Replica(Active), server 2 Secondary Replica(Passive) on top of WCFS...
Listener Name: AGListner( CLIENTS/APPLICATIONS connect using this Name)
Testing Scenario 1(on Virtual Servers):
I have turned network down on Server 1(primary) , then secondary server (Passive ) one came ONLINE and this is now the primary and i was able to connect to AGListner.now When i try to SHUTDOWN/POWER OFF PRIMARY(current Active server),failover happened to Secondary successfully but lost cluster and lost AGListner and was not able to connect ....now applications which are trying to connect using AGListenr name will loose all connections..does AlwaysOn Availability does not support Server SHUTDOWN/POWER OFF?or is there a way to resolve this? or am i doing wrong somewhere?
I'm doing a certification process using AlwaysOn, and was using the link below, and on the lower 90 hotfix, and instead of downloading one by one, and then upgrade one by one updates, is there any way to make it more faster or practical, or unfortunately have to do this one by one, so the download as the update? This rollup contains the latest version of the Windows system files that are updated after the release of SP1. URL...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI came across an issue while migrating from SQL 2005 to SQL 2012 and using AlwaysOn Group. For some strange reason, when ever i connect to the Listener name for each AlwaysOn group, it list all the databases which is on the SQL instance, so i would be able to see databases that is not part of that Availability Group. I am not using default port, so have to put the port after the Name to connect and both Instance and Listener are using different port.
Testing the fail over works fine too, when i perform a manual failover, i can connect to any of the databases in the group from my application with no problem.
Considering that the Listener Port is different to the port which the instance is using?
Secondary server is offline due to a hardware issue and the log files are growing on Primary sever for availability databases. The log drive is running out of space. How can I stop the log growth for the primary databases?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWe are rolling out the use of Availability Group listeners to our SQL Server 2012 Environment which has a 2 node multi-subnet cluster. The Primary is R/W and the Secondary is a non-readable node that would be manually failed over to in a DR scenario
I have set up the AGL and asked the sysadmins to create a DNS record in both subnets with fixed IP's.
The issue I have having is that when I ask the app developers to connect to the databases using the AGL it is totally random whether the AGL resolves to the Primary or DR node - as a result that are having problems getting their apps to connect.
I was thinking of asking the sys admins to remove the DNS record in the DR subnet and then add it back in should we need to fail over - but I was thinking there must be a better way.
What I asked for: Three Windows Server 2012 R2 machines with independent storage running a SQL Server 2014 AlwaysOn Availability Group. DB1 would be the primary, DB2 would be a synchronous replica, and DB3 would be a remote asynchronous replica.
What I was given: a two-node Windows Server 2012 R2 WSFC to run SQL Server 2014 Enterprise with shared storage and a third (remote) Windows Server 2012 R2 machine with independent storage, also with SQL Server 2014 Enterprise, to host an AlwaysOn Availability Groups asynchronous replica.
DB1 and DB2 (as Cluster1) share an E: drive. The remote DB3 has its own E: drive. Initially, DB3’s E: drive was claimed as a cluster resource and I couldn’t even see it. I’ve had several ugly days trying to make this work and have temporarily given up, installing DB3 as a standalone SQL Server that is no longer part of the WSFC and pointing everything towards that (it was originally a third node in the WSFC).
Is it possible to create an AlwaysOn Availability Group with nested clusters (i.e. create the AOAG with Cluster1 and DB3 and somehow ignore the individual nodes that comprise Cluster1)?
I am planning to have AlwaysON Availability Groups setup between Server 1 and Server 2
Server 1 -->Publisher-->2014 SQL Enterprise edition-->Windows Std 2012 --> Always on Primary Replica
Server 2 -->Publisher(when DR happens)-->2014 SQL Enterprise edition-->Windows Std 2012 --> Secondary Primary
Server 4 as Subscriber
Server X as Remote Distributor ..
If i create Publications on Server1 (primary replica) to subscriber 4 servcer, will the publication be created automatically in Secondary Replica Server2 ? or do i have to create manullay using GUI/T Sql on Both Servers?
I have an active passive cluster on my primary Data center in NY and have a DR Active / passive SQL Cluster in TX. These are two separate clusters in the same domain using the same SQL server credentials.Both clusters host an active / passive SQL instance. Lets call it SQLNY(Primary) and SQLTX (DR). I want to enable always On Availability group within the two SQL Instances SQLNY and SQLTX. The listener will be SQLAG which will be used by the Application to connect to the SQL instance. Is there a practical way to implement this? This will not only give me instant fail over within the NY (Primary) but also give me the flexibility to fail over to TX. I am using SQL 2014 Enterprise Edition on both clusters.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a situation where I have two servers in SQL Server 2012 R2 AlwaysOn Availability Group. One is primary and the other one being secondary.  I am only running SharePoint Database on it.I have run out of space on the primary server and about to run out of space at the secondary server. I have tried shrinking database transaction log files, but it returns an error that it cannot be shrunk as the database is in the AlwaysOn Availability Group.
Questions:
1. Several forums suggest that databases need to taken out of AlwaysOn Availability Group in order for the shrinking to work properply?
2. Would it have any impact on the database if it is taken out of availability group and then added back?
Is AlwaysOn Availability Group support SCCM , SCOM and DPM ??what is the best Solution for this products to be highly available ??
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have configured replication between Always ON Availability Groups  (Listener) (PUBLISHER), remote distributor to XYZ SUBSCRIBER...with above link ...
Now, I want to know how to replicate Data from XYZ SERVER a PUBLISHER to Always ON Availability Groups  (Listener) (SUBSCRIBER)? Distributor Database being on XYZEX:
XYZ SQL SERVER as PUBLISHER, and DISTRIBUTORÂ
toÂ
Always ON Availability Groups  (Listener) SUBSCRIBER...
I am planning to have AlwaysON Availability Groups setup between Server 1 and Server 2
Server 1 -->Publisher-->2014 SQL Enterprise edition-->Windows Std 2012 --> Always on Primary Replica
Server 2 -->Publisher(when DR happens)-->2014 SQL Enterprise edition-->Windows Std 2012 --> Secondary  Primary
Server 4 as Subscriber
Server X Â as Remote Distributor ..
as of now , In the event of Disaster happens on Node 1  i will have to manage JOBS on Node 2  (backups, Maintenance, replication, day-day other Jobs)..Is there a way i can call all jobs to run from a remote server which executes on Active NODE(which ever is active)? so that in the event of disaster happens on node1, when  node 2 becomes online and  i don't have to do anything with SQL Agent or jobs on Node 2?
This is my first deployment of an always on availability group for SQL 2014 and I'm trying to get my custom backup procedure to handle all databases appropriately depending on the primary group. Basiscally I want the system databases and all databases that don't participate in the availability group to be backed up on both nodes and those that do participate backed up ONLY on the primary server. I've looked at the sys.fn_hadr_backup_is_preferred_replica funcation, but would like to only have to test for a single databases existance in the availability group. If the one database is in the group, only backup the system databases and those that don't participate, otherwise backup everydatabase. This would be the case for both full backups and transaction logs.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWe are currently using 2008 environment. We do have an SSIS Package running. The package used to run everyday and take the production server full backups and restore into the another server. Then do some delete commands and do some updates in that database on that server (We have some sensitive data other than Production we have to run that scripts in any environment). After run all those delete statements another team will read the data from that database.
We are planning to migrate to 2014 and set up always on and use the replica as the source. In this case how the package will work?
How to change that SSIS package. With the 2014 always on we are directly reading the data there is no backups to restore then how to run the delete statements?
I ran into a Kerberos authentication issue because of a missing AOAG SPN. Some of the tickets that granted me access to the nodes of the AOAG cluster were using the encryption type that I would expect. However, the MSSQLSvc SPNs were not using what I would expect!
klist
#XX> Client Somebody@somedomain.com
Server: RPCSS/MySQLServer@somedomain.com
KerbTicket Encryption Type: AES-256-CTS-HMAC-SHA1-96
#XX> Client Somebody@somedomain.com
Server: MSSQLSvc/MySQLServer@somedomain.com
KerbTicket Encryption Type: RSADSI RC4-HMAC(NT)
#XX> Client Somebody@somedomain.com
Server: MSSQLSvc/MyAOAGListener@somedomain.com
KerbTicket Encryption Type: RSADSI RC4-HMAC(NT)
I can't seem to figure out what the next step should be, and the infrastructure admins are stumped as well. How to proceed?
We are looking at going down the High Availability Always On route. However we have some concerns around the lack of support for MSDTC. In short we are concerned that developers may introduce functionality either on purpose or by mistake that uses the or escalates the Query’s to the MSTDTC. As this could result in database splitting.
Understand that this will be a moot point in SQL 2016 but for 20122014 is it possible to disable the MSDTC to protect against this and run High Availability Always On. ? Does it just need to be disabled on the SQL Server or does it need to be done on the application server ?
Setting up a test AlwaysOn Availability Group for one database.
However, whenever I restore the database to the replica server and join it, it ends up with my user account as the owner of the database.
Obviously I do not want a user account as the database owner, but since it is read-only I cannot modify it directly. If I were able to fail the AG over to the replica, I could change the owner then, but I cannot due to business requirements. this AG is to essentially serve as a replacement to log shipping.
I tried doing the backups and restores using EXECUTE AS login = 'sa', and yet it still shows up as my user account.
I have getting issues when i am creating listener for always On . Error shown as below
Can not bring the Windows server fail over cluster (WSFC) resources online. (Error Code 5942). The WSFC service may not be running or may not be accessible in its currents states, or the WSFC resources may not be in a state that could accept the request.
For information about this error code see "system error code" in windows development documentationÂ
The attempt to create network name and IP address for the listener is failed. The WSFC service may not be running or may not be accessible in its currents states or the value provide for the network name and IP address may be incorrect. Check the state of the WSFC cluster and validate network name and IP address with network administrator. (Microsoft SQL Server error 41066) ...
I am setting up a 3 node cluster as part of an availability group.Initially I tested failover between nodes using SQL Management Studio and everything failed over successfully when I stopped a node, and I was still able to write queries. I started to test with an application which connects using an SQL user and whenever I would switch nodes, I would get login failed. I believe the cause of this issue is because the server logins SID's which are tied to the database are different than the server logins on the other nodes which resulted in login failed.how can I ensure that the server logins SID's are the same between nodes? Is there a way of copying this over or how is this supposed to be done? I read a little about contained databases where I could just set the login on the database itself vs. creating a server login but I would rather not go down that route.Â
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy environment has a 4 node cluster , 2 in primary and 2 in sec dc. Storage is sperate for both.
Need to setup always on for 4 Instances there on the 2 nodes of the primary dc. Is there any restriction in setting up always on for multiple instances for a cluster.