Hello everyone,
We currently run a two node always on availability group in an existing vCenter that we are retiring very soon. Therefore, I've been tasked to clone these two servers to the new vCenter and wanted to make certain that following Microsoft's (Suspend an Availability Database) documentation will ensure I can accomplish this task.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/suspend-an-availability-database-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017#SSMSProcedure
Basically, I plan to suspend the primary database and then turn off the secondary database server in order to clone to the new vCenter, however, I wan to be sure that the primary database remains available to clients. Subsequently, I will bring up the secondary database online at the new vCenter and resume the suspended availability database on the primary SQL server. We are running SQL 2014 on Windows 2012R2.
Can you please share any suggestions/concerns you may have to help me in this process?
Thanks you in advance!