I am trying to install SQL Server 2012 onto an already configured and validated windows failover cluster (server 2012) but the process is hanging after installing the setup files.
The last entry in the log is:
running discovery on remote machine
and I've left it hanging like this for 4 hours and nothing happens.
I have a Microsoft Cluster running on Server 2003 Entrprise. SQL 2000 8.00.2039 (SP4). 5gb physical memory installed.
With the databases online we run a test failover from the Cluster administrator. It takes about 30-40 seconds and completes without generating any Server Event log errors nor SQL log errors. Everything looks good from an administrative stand point.
However, when we test with running a series of queries to the databases, then failover, we notice that it can take up to 3 or 4 minutes before some of the databases will respond. Connections are not refused, they just sit there.
How can we troubleshoot this or does anyone have a similiar experience with this scenario?
I´ve been reading that SQL Server 2012 Always On is dependent on having a Windows Failover Cluster setup. Is that correct ?
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TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Setup
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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
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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.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi we have a two node windows 2003 x64 cluster, each running a SQL 2005 instance. I've added a new node to the cluster and am now trying to set up a new instance of SQL 2005 on the new node (node c). During the install i am getting a failure just after the stage where you choose the features to install. I'm selecting SQL database engine with Failover Cluster. When i click next i get a message which states:
"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"
I've read a number of articles about possible causes for this and i've checked all the suggested causes but none of these have made a difference. The cluster disk resource is healthy and can be failed between all nodes in the cluster. No errors are generated. I am using an account which has domain admin rights and I can access all admin shares on all nodes. Some of the articles i have referenced are here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907261
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913815
http://blogs.technet.com/mbaher/archive/2007/03/23/clustering-sql-2005-and-administrative-shares.aspx
I've tried uninstalling all components etc but still i can't get it to work. The next step is rebuilding the server completely so does anyone have any suggestions?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
I am tying to set up an SQL 2005, SP1 failover cluster on a new set of hardware. Everytime I try to run the install, I get this error
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup
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Setup failed to start on the remote machine. Check the Task scheduler event log on the remote machine.
I've gone through this doc (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189910.aspx) and checked all of the applicable cautions:
I don't have an antivirus package running.
All of the SQL setup pre-checks run fine.
I have a SQL Group created, with the shared drive as a resource.
NBT is disabled on both heartbeat NIC's.
NBT is explicitly enabled on both external NIC's.
While I do have DDNS running, just to be safe I've pre-created an A record for my SQL VR.
Both nodes are registered in DNS and Setup correctly finds the second node.
In the Application event log on the second node (the one failing...), I get MSI Installer 'Install Started' successes (and sometimes I even get "Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 -- Installation completed successfully.")
I am running the install as myself, a Domain Admin and am explicitly added to the Administrators group on both servers.
Remote Registry is running.
Task Scheduler is running.
There is plenty of space everywhere.
All of the Admin shares are enabled.
The node I am running the install from is the owner of all of the cluster groups and resources:
Cluster group
MSDTC group
SQL group
This is all that is in my setup log:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 9.00.1399.06
==============================
OS Version : Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family, Enterprise Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 3790)
Time : Tue Nov 06 16:45:52 2007
Task did not appear to start on machine: \ERLEW01B: 267013
I'm at a total loss and I'm getting very frustrated...
Ed
I've never performed this type of installation. Any tips/ tricks you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello All, I am trying the following script to upgrade SQL Server 2005 SP1 to SP2. I have an Active Passive cluster configuration. I have default instances of SQL Server. I am using the following script.
start /wait c:1sqlserversp2SQLSERVER2005SP2-KB921896-x86-ENU.exe /allinstances /quiet.
The sql server install fails to run. When I used the above command with just
start /wait c:1sqlserversp2SQLSERVER2005SP2-KB921896-x86-ENU.exe /quiet still the summary.txt file came with authentication success and that is all. I changed the above script and did
start /wait c:1sqlserversp2SQLSERVER2005SP2-KB921896-x86-ENU.exe /instancename=instancename of the cluster
This worked, however the install patched the passive node (DB engine, all the cluster unaware components) but failed to patch the DB engine on the Active node. I had to run the SQL Server sp2 install manually but still it did not patch the DB engine on the primary node
1. Can someone please help me with this issue as I want the unattended install to work. so it installs both active and passive node. I will post the final output and also the ADS script to do this as a bonus if this works.
Here is the summary.txt file.
**********************************************************************************
Processes Locking Files
Process Name Feature Type User Name PID
msftesql Database Services Service 5152
MSSQLSERVER Database Services Service 4412
ResrcMon.exe Database Services Application SHOMSCSService 4688
**********************************************************************************
Product Installation Status
Product : Setup Support Files
Product Version (Previous): 3042
Product Version (Final) :
Status : Not Selected
Log File :
Error Description :
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Product : Database Services (MSSQLSERVER)
Product Version (Previous): 2153
Product Version (Final) :
Status : Failure
Log File : C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGHotfixSQL9_Hotfix_KB921896_sqlrun_sql.msp.log
Error Number : 29506
Error Description : MSP Error: 29506 SQL Server Setup failed to modify security permissions on file D:Microsoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData for user sqlservice. To proceed, verify that the account and domain running SQL Server Setup exist, that the account running SQL Server Setup has administrator privileges, and that exists on the destination drive.
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Product : Integration Services
Product Version (Previous): 3042
Product Version (Final) :
Status : Not Selected
Log File :
Error Description :
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Product : SQL Server Native Client
Product Version (Previous): 3042
Product Version (Final) :
Status : Not Selected
Log File :
Error Description :
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Product : Client Components
Product Version (Previous): 3042
Product Version (Final) :
Status : Not Selected
Log File :
Error Description :
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Product : MSXML 6.0 Parser
Product Version (Previous): 1129
Product Version (Final) :
Status : Not Selected
Log File :
Error Description :
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Product : SQLXML4
Product Version (Previous): 3042
Product Version (Final) :
Status : Not Selected
Log File :
Error Description :
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Product : Backward Compatibility
Product Version (Previous): 2004
Product Version (Final) :
Status : Not Selected
Log File :
Error Description :
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Product : Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer
Product Version (Previous): 3042
Product Version (Final) :
Status : Not Selected
Log File :
Error Description :
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**********************************************************************************
Summary
One or more products failed to install, see above for details
Exit Code Returned: 29506
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?
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I have successfully configured a 3 node multi-site Windows failover cluster with no shared storage. For quorum, I have defined a File Share Witness (FSW). The FSW has voting rights and is in the DR site. The setup looks like this –
WSFC –
•Node A – Site #1 (voting right = 1)
•Node B – Site #1 (voting right = 1)
•Node C – Site #2 (voting right = 0)
•FSW – Site #2 (voting right = 1)
Again - There are no shared disks in our setup. We are not going to use SQL clustered instance. We are going to use Always On with these 3 nodes.
SQL Always On –
•Node A – Site #1 (Primary Replica)
•Node B – Site #1 (Readable Secondary)
•Node C – Site #2 (Readable Secondary)
All the setup including the “availability group” works properly under this setup. However, a failover to site #2 under DR situation is not working and I know why but don’t know what needs to be done to fix the problem.
The following works fine –
•Automatic failover between nodes A and B (same site – site #1)
•Forced failover to node C in site #2 provided at least one of the nodes in site #1 is up (non – DR situation) - this will ensure the cluster is up
The following is not working –
•Forced failover to node C in site #3 when both nodes in site #1 are lost (true DR situation) – This is because the cluster is not up at this point.
I know I have to bring the cluster up somehow and I have not been able to do so by restarting the cluster service.
I tried to run the command to start cluster service.
Question –
How can I FORCE the cluster to come up in Site #2 on node C when it has no voting rights?
I have always worked with even number of nodes and shared disks with traditional clustering. I am not sure what needs to be done in this scenario with 3 nodes and a FSW.
How can we find the cluster failover count in always on ?
As my AG is configured as synchronous mode , AG went offline and we manually restarted the AG service when we check the properties on AG role they r in default setting ?
I am new to SQL Server 2012 clustering.I added a new instance to one of the two nodes.when I try to move it to the other node it fails.Do I need to install it on both?If so, what options do you install on the second node?
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When preforming install for 2nd SQL instance. Setup fails with log entries
Task did not appear to start on machine NODE2 : 267013
Task did not appear to start on machine NODE3 : 267013
Note: first install worked fine - after getting over MSDTC issues...
Also have confirm task scheduler service is running on all nodes.
Anyone with some insights?
Regards
In QA we have a two-node cluster with four instances of sql. In trying to add a fifth, I was given an IP address already in use so the install hung.
I removed it from the cluster but it is still there in the registry etc on the node I was working on.
I read about using the maintenance tab of the sql server install to "remove a node" but the terminology is confusing. To me a node is a physical server and an instance is an instance of sql server -- not the same at all but they are often referred to as the same thing.
I definitely don't want to remove one of the servers from the cluster.
Hello.
Has anyone attempted and successfully installed SQL Server 2000 SP4
via remote desktop on the cluster.
The reason I am asking is that SP4 readme file has this:
"...
4.3 Systems Management Server Distributed Installation
You cannot install Database Components SP4 from a remote location.
..."
Currently SQL Server has SP3a installed.
Thank you in advance.
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.
Help!
I am using Script Transformation to output a new column as image[DT_IMAGE]
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Row.serializedobject.AddBlobData ( binaryArrayReturnedFromC#dll )
The package always runs fine on my developing machine and will halt on other
machine at AddBlobData after certain number row records were processed. I am
stuck here. Anyone has any suggestion?
What I need is reading data from mutiple tables in one database and writing
into a single table in another datable. In order preserve all the columns
data, I use input column fields to construct a new object and then serialize
it, and store the serialize data into detination db table. (The object and
serialization function is coming from c# dll.)
Dim b As BusinessLicense = New BusinessLicense()
b.ApprovalDate = Row.approvaldate
b.BusinessId = Row.busid
b.BusinessName = Row.busname
b.NaicsCode = Row.naicscode
b.NaicsDescription = Row.naicsdescr
b.OwnerName = Row.ownername
b.Phone = Row.phone
b.Pkey = Row.pkey
b.RenewalDate = Row.renewaldate
b.StartDate = Row.startdate
b.Suite = Row.suite
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Both machine is xp with sp2. and standard SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.1399.06
Thanks!
OS: Windows 2012, standard, 64-bit
SQL: 2012 + SP1 + CU2 = 11.0.3339
We recently decided to "break apart" our BI environment. We used to have everything on one box, DB Engine, SSIS, SSAS & SSRS. Everything has been running fine, but we now have other projects using these services, so we decided to break them apart into their own boxes.
We now have DB Engine on one Server, SSIS & SSRS on another server and SSAS on yet another server, so we now have three boxes that replaced one box. All are Windows 2012, standard, 64-bit with SQL Server 2012 + SP1 + CU2.
Since some of our SSIS packages have to access external resources, we used a domain account for it's service account. The DB Engine and SSAS box are using the default service accounts when installed. I can execute the packages fine on the SSIS server, I can even execute them via SQL Agent jobs on the SSIS box (we did install a default instance of SQL on the SSIS box), however when I try to execute a package from my laptop, it fails with the ugly "Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITYANONYMOUS LOGON'".
I immediately double checked my SPNs and they all looked correct for the SSIS server and the service account we are using (and we had no duplicates). I also double checked the User Rights Assignment in the Local policy editor and all the correct Rights have been assigned (Log on as a service, Bypass traverse checking, Impersonate a client after authentication).
We have 5 instances on our clients old machine with SQL 2005, now they want us to move on cluster environment with SQL 2012.
Once I have installed and configured SQL cluster with single instance, but how to install SQL Cluster environment for Multiple instances.
Should I install all the instances first and than have to configure cluster ?
OR
Is there any way that first I will install cluster and than we can add the instances ?
I need to be able to restart an application service after the SQL Cluster fails over. how to accomplish this as a SQL job?
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My coworker discovered this problem and I was able to replicate it. We're using the SP1 install msi.
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Hello,
I wanted to instal sql server 2005 on our sql 2000 failover cluster.
The first thing i did was deinstal sql 2000.
The installation hangs on the dialog screen configuring components and does not present een error.
If i install the cluster with one node there's no problem.
But if i want to add the second node the installion hangs.
When i go to the second node and stop the scheduled task the installations stops.
Do you have any suggestion
When performing a failover the DriverManager.getConnection method never returns from it's call. I used a modified version of the test program included in the sqljdbc help file (below). If the principle server is server2 and a failover is performed, the program works just fine. If the priciple server is server1 and a failover is performed, the hang occurs. The sql servers are not on a domain, are in the same workgroup, have certificates setup between them. Sqljdbc version used is 1.1.1501.101. I rolled back to version 1.1.1320.0 and the DriverManager.getConnection exceptioned. Not sure if this is a setup issue or a common problem. Anyone have any suggestions or seeing similar issues?
Thanks
- tc
Version 1.1.1501.101 - System hangs on DriverManager.getConnection method.
Version 1.1.1320.0 - Exception:
java.nio.channels.UnresolvedAddressException
at sun.nio.ch.Net.checkAddress(Net.java:30)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:451)
at java.nio.channels.SocketChannel.open(SocketChannel.java:146)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.DBComms.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectHelper(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.loginWithFailover(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:525)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:193)
at testconnection.Main.Execute(Main.java:115)
at testconnection.Main.main(Main.java:35)
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
package testconnection;
import java.sql.*;
public class Main
{
/** Creates a new instance of Main */
public Main()
{
}
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int i = 0;
while(true)
{
Execute(++i);
try
{
Thread.sleep(5000);
}
catch(Exception e)
{}
}
}
private static void Execute(int iteration)
{
// Create a variable for the connection string.
String connectionUrl = "jdbc:sqlserver://server1;" +
"databaseName=TestDb;integratedSecurity=true;" +
"failoverPartner=server2";
// Declare the JDBC objects.
Connection con = null;
Statement stmt = null;
try
{
System.out.println("(" + iteration + ") Connection Test");
// Establish the connection to the principal server.
Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver");
System.out.println(" Get Connection.");
con = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl);
System.out.println(" Connected to the principal server.");
// Create and execute an SQL statement that inserts some data.
stmt = con.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM TestTable");
System.out.println(" SUCCESS");
while(rs.next())
{
System.out.println(" Record: " + rs.getString("Field1"));
}
}
// Handle any errors that may have occurred.
catch (SQLException se)
{
try
{
// The connection to the principal server failed,
// try the mirror server which may now be the new
// principal server.
System.out.println(" Connection to principal server failed, " +
"trying the mirror server.");
con = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl);
System.out.println(" Connected to the new principal server.");
stmt = con.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM TestTable");
System.out.println(" SUCCESS");
while(rs.next())
{
System.out.println(" Record: " + rs.getString("Field1"));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(" FAILED");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
// Close the JDBC objects.
finally
{
if (stmt != null) try { stmt.close(); } catch(Exception e) {}
if (con != null) try { con.close(); } catch(Exception e) {}
}
}
}
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.
Any ideas?
TIA
Hi all:
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?
Thanks
vua
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.
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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
http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/deploy/clusteringssrs.mspx
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.