SQL 2012 :: Setup AlwaysOn On Existing Cluster?

May 19, 2015

We have an existing SQL Server 2012 Enterprise cluster with 2 nodes (active-active) and uses Windows 2008 R2 OS. We are looking for a way to increase HA as well as offload backups to secondary server and it was suggested that AlwayOn could be an option.

The questions I have are:

1) Is it possible to turn on AalwaysOn feature on an existing cluster?

2) If yes to above, does the secondary replica need to exist as a node on the same cluster or can it be on a completely different cluster?

3) If the secondary replica is on the same cluster (i.e. we add a 3rd node to existing 2 node cluster), can that node be provisioned with storage from a completely different SAN? (i.e. Node 1 and Node 2 accesses LUNs on SAN1 and Node 3 accesses LUNs on SAN2).

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SQL 2012 :: Advanced Cluster Preparation For New Instance On Existing Cluster

Apr 10, 2014

I ran the Advanced cluster preparation for a new sql instance on an existing cluster.

Slq Server 2012.

After is completed, it was successful, I realized I specified the wrong Instance Root directory.

Is it possible to remove what the preparation installed? Or is it possible to change the root directory?

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May 13, 2013

I'm setting up my first pair of Sql 2012 servers using AlwaysOn. I set up backups to run on the primary and I understand that you can set up backups to run on both the primary and secondary servers but the secondary will fail. Is there a way I can stop the secondary server from sending out error messages about failed backups? Is it possible to script it so that the server looks at whether it's primary or secondary and turns on or off alerts based on that?

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SQL 2012 :: Maximum Cluster Nodes In AlwaysOn

Mar 17, 2014

How many nodes can you have in a cluster with SQL 2012 alwaysOn.

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Or is there a counter or some validation from SQL AlwaysOn that actually hard limits to a grand total of 5 nodes in a cluster?

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Nov 13, 2014

Can we make SQL 2012 Always ON over the normal SQL Cluster 2012.

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May 3, 2013

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May 6, 2014

How can we change the backup replica in Always on Cluster. I am not able to take backup because of this.

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SQL 2012 :: Multi-Site AlwaysOn Failover Cluster

Oct 6, 2014

We are implementing a multi-site (Windows Server Failover Cluster) WSFC to enable Always On between our primary and DR site. We are not going to use SQL clustered instances. We are not planning to use shared disks. Each node is running a standalone instance of SQL 2012.

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.

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How can we find the cluster failover count in always on ?

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I am trying to setup alwayson on 2008r2 server on 2 instances in the same machine fort testing purpose. I installed 'Failover Cluster Manager' now I don't see 'Nodes' to add up.Should I run 'Validate a configuration Wizard'? or something else.. Can't find online to setup 'Alwayson' from the scratch...Will I able to setup 'Always on' on same server but different instances like mirroring? or has to be different servers?

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I know now that AlwaysOn feature HAS to be installed/configured on a Windows Clustering environment, BUT the secondary replicas, like the Disaster recovery replica residing in a different Data Center HAS to be also in a Windows Clustering environment or can it reside on a SINGLE SQL Server INSTANCE?.

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Jul 27, 2015

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let me know apart from the following what else is required

2 for private network
2 for public network ......

1 for virtual server/windows cluster ip which is used to connect application

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Oct 10, 2015

During the installation of Adding node to a SQL Server failover cluster(On passive node) getting error like.. The MOF compiler could not connect with the WMI server. This is either because of a semantic error such as an incompatibility with the existing WMI repository or an actual error such as the failure of the WMI server to start.We  run the below commands but didn’t get any resolution & got the same above error .
 
1<sup>st</sup> Method…

1. Open console command (Run->CMD with administrator privileges). 

2. net stop winmgmt 

3. Rename folder %windir%System32WbemRepository to other one, for backup purposes (for example _Repository). 

4. net start winmgmt

2<sup>nd</sup> Method..

1. Disable and stop the WMI service.

a) Command : - sc config winmgmt start= disabled

b. Command : -                 net stop winmgmt

2. Run the following commands.

a).  Command:  Winmgmt /salvagerepository %windir%System32wbem

b). Command:   Winmgmt /resetrepository %windir%System32wbem

3. Re-enable the WMI service

Command:          sc config winmgmt start= auto 

Last command to run after above steps

4. Command:     mofcomp "%programfiles(x86)%Microsoft SQL Server100Sharedsqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof"

File not found Error for above command.

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Aug 6, 2015

We have a client which they have production 2 node cluster environment. On it around 200 databases with single SQL instance.

Now client wants disatster plan for these 200 database. In these 200 database 3 db's are around 80 GB each databases remaing are less than 5 DB.Note: All these 200 db's are having produciton sites (i mean to say each db is having single site)

For this DR paln clinet is going to provide other DR server,they wants to setup DR between exsting produciton cluster instance to this DR server.

So in this case we have suggest SQL server AlwaysOn availability group.

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Jun 19, 2015

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Aug 14, 2015

I have had a serious issue with a production AlwaysOn cluster whereby the service did not successfully transition to the secondary node and I cannot find the root cause of the issue.

Some details: It is a 2 node cluster (same datacenter) with a shared disk quorum, Windows Server 2012, both are virtual machines running on VMWare vSphere  5.5. SQL Server version is 2012 Enterprise SP2 CU6

The failover occurred because of a network incident (a spanning tree recalculation caused a connection timeout between both nodes). Initial entries in the SQL Log look normal for this event, for example:

05/08/2015 11:18:06: A connection timeout has occurred on a previously established connection to availability replica 'FIN-IE-PA078' with id [6910F4A9-87E7-4836-BA79-0F41BE90266D].  Either a networking or a firewall issue exists or the availability replica has transitioned to the resolving role.
05/08/2015 11:18:06: AlwaysOn Availability Groups connection with secondary database terminated for primary database 'UserManagement' on the availability replica with Replica ID: {6910f4a9-87e7-4836-ba79-0f41be90266d}. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

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My interpretation of this is that the cluster failover attempts failed, because the network condition still persisted. The network interruption lasted approximately 2 minutes, and I would have expected the cluster to come back online at this point, after the restart delay period as suggested in the last entry in the error log. However this did not happen.

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Jul 29, 2015

We have a database with AlwaysOn enabled, where the database is getting mirrored using AlwaysOn to a secondary node in a two node cluster. Now we want to set up a DR site for that database in a different data center.

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Oct 29, 2015

I have configured AlwaysOn HA setup with HyperV environments without shared disk and using quorum voting in file share witness.

1. I want to monitor AlwaysOn HA setup and AO Group database on daily basis.
2. To configure email alerts for proactive monitoring if unusual events occur.

Scripts for monitoring in that AO setup as well as AO group database ...

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-point the MDM front end to the cluster name, so it wont matter what server the databsae is on?
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May 8, 2015

I got 5 SQL Servers 2008R2 (2x CPUs with 96-384Gb of RAM) with total 1500DBs and around 10Tb of allocated data. Now

I am forced to upgrade to 2012 and 2014, but the old hardware is overkill.

Is it possible to consolidate this to a large SQL AlwaysOn cluster?

We pros/cons could it be to have 2 or 4 nodes?

2 or 4 sockets servers?

My goal was to use ~20 cores Enterprise license on active server.

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Oct 25, 2015

We had a big issue today during maintenance work in our SQL environment.

So our environment:
- 2x SQL Server 2014 Enterprise on Windows Server 2012 R2 (SRV1 and SRV2)
-- Both Hyper-V VMs on different Hosts
-- Both configured to an Windows Failover Cluster and AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG1)
-- AG Listener: AG1_lis
-- No shared storage (each Hyper-V Host has its own local storage)
-- Asynchronous Mode
-- SRV1 is primary, SRV2 is secondary SQL node

What happened?
- Shutting down Windows on SRV2 due hardware maintenance
- Cluster goes offline, AG1 goes offline
-- Error message: "Stopped listening on virtual network name 'AG1_lis'."
-- Error message: "The availability group database "DatabaseXY" is changing roles from "PRIMARY" to "RESOLVING" because the mirroring session or availability group failed over due to role synchronization."

Results?
- AG1_lis wasn't available for our applications and they stopped working properly because database connection was lost!

I think, I HOPE, this is not the normale behaviour when one node is shutting down (especially the secondary node!)

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Sep 5, 2012

I have a 3-nodes AlwaysOn cluster (Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 + SQL Server 2012 RTM), Node Majority quorum, the quorum vote for each node is 1. 

Today the AlwaysOn AG was suddenly down due to the cluster service on node 1 stopped and can't be started.

The error in eventlog is - 

The cluster database could not be loaded. The file may be missing or corrupt. Automatic repair might be attempted.
The Cluster Service service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 2 time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 120000 milliseconds: Restart the service.

The failover cluster database could not be unloaded. If restarting the cluster service does not fix the problem, please restart the machine.

The Cluster Service service terminated with service-specific error The system cannot find the file specified..

The error log in cluster log is - 

0000156c.000008f8::2012/09/05-08:09:36.057 INFO  [DM] Key RegistryMachineCluster.restored does not appear to be loaded (status STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND(c0000034))
0000156c.000008f8::2012/09/05-08:09:36.057 WARN  [DM] Node 1: Failed to unload restored hive from the registry with error STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER(c000000d)
0000156c.000008f8::2012/09/05-08:09:36.057 INFO  [DM] Node 1: loading local hive
0000156c.000008f8::2012/09/05-08:09:36.057 ERR   [DM] Node 1: failed to unload cluster hive, error 2.

Now the cluster service can't be started on node 1, error code 2. Looks like the clusdb in C:windowscluster is missing or corrupted. How to restore the clusdb file? And how to prevent this happen again?

All nodes were well patched, AlwaysOn and cluster related hotfixes were all installed. [URL] .... doesn't wok.

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DB - SQL 2012 Enterprise edition

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1. Local First 2 Nodes are same subnet XXX.XX.44.XX
2. DR Node another subnet XXX.XX.128.XX

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I'm getting an error adding Replica to SQL AlwaysOn failover cluster in the new availability group wizard.  When I enter the name of the target node (secondary replica) server and press connect, I get the following:   

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. 

The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 2) The system cannot fine the file specified

The SQL Browser service is up and running on the target.  I am using an Azure VM for my SQL instance.  This cluster spans geographies from our on-premise site to Azure via a VPN.  This is a multi-subnet cluster. I'm attempting to create a new AG from the primary replica node and the target is a node on Azure called SSASNodeAz03. 

[URL]

Full error:

Connect to Server
Cannot connect to ssasnodeaz03

Additional information: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. 

The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 2) The system cannot fine the file specified

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Oct 8, 2015

I have a Windows 2008 R2 Always on Cluster with 3 nodes (two in the primary site and one in the DR site).

Primary Site:
     -Primary Site Server1
     -Primary Site Server2

DR Site 1 (to be decommed):
     -DR Site Server1

Our company is planning on decommissioning the DR site.  But before we do this, we want to add a 4th site to the cluster.  Migrate the data...and then decommission the original DR Site.

Is it possible to have this configuration:

Primary Site:
     -Primary Site Server1
     -Primary Site Server2

DR Site 1 (to be decommed):
     -DR Site Server1

DR Site 2 (NEW DR Site):
     -DR Site Server1

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Sep 22, 2015

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.

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Recovery :: AlwaysOn Cluster Reboot Due To File Share Witness Unavailability

Apr 23, 2015

Came across this scenario in AlwaysOn Availability Group (two node), file share witness times out and RHS terminate and cause the cluster node to reboot. File share witness is for continuous failover and if the resource is unavailable my expectation was that it should go offline and should not impact Server or Sql Server. But its rebooting the cluster node to rectify the issue.

Configuration
Windows Server 2012 R2 (VMs)
Sql Server 2012 SP2
Errors

A component on the server did not respond in a timely fashion. This caused the cluster resource 'File Share Witness' (resource type 'File Share Witness', DLL 'clusres2.dll') to exceed its time-out threshold. As part of cluster health detection, recovery actions will be taken. The cluster will try to automatically recover by terminating and restarting the Resource Hosting Subsystem (RHS) process that is running this resource. Verify that the underlying infrastructure (such as storage, networking, or services) that are associated with the resource are functioning correctly.

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May 27, 2015

I have getting issues when i am creating listener for always On . Error shown as below

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For information about this error code see "system error code" in windows development documentation 

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) ...

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