I have a 2 node availability group on SQL Server 2014. Each node is in a different row of the data center. The row with the primary node lost power and the secondary node did NOT come online. The secondary node went into a "recovery pending"
state. The cluster was no longer accessible from the Failover Cluster Manager. Once the primary came back online we were once again able to use the availability group as well as see the group in the Failover Cluster Manager.
When we just unplugged the server to simulate the power loss we had the exact same result. We also got the same result but unplugging the network cables from the primary node. This lack of failover during a network or power outage is very troubling and we are worried that either we missed something in setup of the high availability group or perhaps AlwaysOn does not achieve the HA we were hoping for.
Is there a step we missed to allow the HA Group to fail over from one node to the other during a network/power outage?
When we just unplugged the server to simulate the power loss we had the exact same result. We also got the same result but unplugging the network cables from the primary node. This lack of failover during a network or power outage is very troubling and we are worried that either we missed something in setup of the high availability group or perhaps AlwaysOn does not achieve the HA we were hoping for.
Is there a step we missed to allow the HA Group to fail over from one node to the other during a network/power outage?