Hi Experts, need some suggestion, please.
I did set up always Availability groups
Physical-ServerA-DC-Primary
Physical ServerB-NY-Secondaryand
Configured on ServerA and ServerB to use Fileshare Witness below<g class="gr_ gr_932 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep" data-gr-id="932" id="932">:DC</g>
Total 3 quorum votes
VM-ServerC:File ShareWitness : D\Quorum: LOCATED IN DC This is a VM
When Primary and Fileshare Witness (both in DC) servers lost power, we lost all Acess to SQL server as the cluster got shut down because of no way to establish a quorum and <g class="gr_ gr_315 gr-alert
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waiting for the primary to come online
now, I would like to change the file share witness location to NY server file share witness in a new VM D where we have 24X7 power so that in case any <g class="gr_ gr_928 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards
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the primary DC goes offline <g class="gr_ gr_713 gr-alert gr_tiny gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" data-gr-id="713" id="713">i</g> can manually failover to the server
which is online
I read how to change the file share witness in below link a
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc770620(v=ws.10)
<g class="gr_ gr_1344 gr-alert gr_tiny gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" data-gr-id="1344" id="1344">i</g> would like to get some help on below:
- should have to change the file share witness location in both primary and secondary server Failover cluster manager or any 1 change should sync both?
- does this require a restart ?
- what is the worst that could happen
- the cluster will still run even if the witness goes offline or maybe some unexpected issues
- will the change be successfully done if <g class="gr_ gr_1636 gr-alert gr_tiny gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" data-gr-id="1636" id="1636">i</g> follow the steps ? just worried as <g class="gr_ gr_1637 gr-alert gr_tiny gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" data-gr-id="1637" id="1637">i</g> never done before
Please advise