Always on and log shipping
I need to deploy two sharepoint farms in two different sites to provide a DR solution.The farm in Site A will be connected to an alwayson Availability group running SQL 2014 standard consisting of two...
View ArticleSQL Log Shipping affecting my Temp DB Log Size
Hi I have SQL Log Shipping Enabled for 8 DBs to Secondary DB Server and once I did the configuration and all is done , I start notice that the Log size for Temp DB start increasing until reached 50 GB...
View ArticleHELP - Sql 2012 Cluster on windows cluster - Clustered drives showing "the...
Hi,I am building a SQL Cluster on top of Windows cluster but I am getting stuck when installing SQL.I have followed this article:...
View ArticleMultiple Instances of Failover Cluster in a 2 Node SQL Server 2014 environment
Hi, I have a 2 Node active-passive SQL 2014 Cluster. Currently, there are 4 Shared Disks on this Cluster - 2 for Quorums and 2 - 1 each for Data and Log. (This is what I see on the Cluster Manager).Now...
View ArticlePeer-Peer replication - log backup ?
can i take log backup for P2P replicated DB.? does it affect the replication.?
View ArticleSQL log Shipping and My Backup
Hi I have SQL 2014 Log shipping configured for some DBs and also I have Microsoft DPM to backup my DBs weekly.my question here is the backup from DPM will corrupt the log shipping since the backup is...
View ArticleLicence for SQL Server Clustering Active/Passive
Hi All,Suppose there are Two Windows Server each with 4 cores. One server will be Active and Another Passive. During implementation of Active/Passive SQL Server 2008 or 2012 (Enterprise/Standard)...
View ArticleIs Load Balancing possible in SQL Server Active/Active Cluster ?
Hi All,Please let me know whether it's possible to implement load balancing for Active/Active SQL Server (Any Version or Edition) Clustering environment?Regards,Nikhil P Desai
View ArticleUninstall a node in active-active SQL 2008 R2
Hi, I read some posting on removing a node in SQL cluster. I have never done it, and still have some questions.I have a three nodes active-active-active SQL 2008 R2 cluster environment. Node A, Node B...
View Articlefailover and failback in log shipping
Hi I need a step by step guide how to perform failover and failback using the log shipping technology and I am using SQL 2014 SP1 standard edition.I have 2 sharepoint farms located in two different...
View ArticleSql cluster will not failover to newly added server nodes
We have an existing two server node cluster (Windows 2008) running SQL instances. Now we have added two New Win 2008 server  nodes to this existing cluster setup.  When we try to failover any cluster...
View ArticleMigrating Both Windows and SQL Server (Clustered) to Higher Version
Hi allWe have a cluster with 2 nodes (Windows Server 2008 R2) and SQL Server 2008 R2 is also installed in cluster mode.I want to upgrade Windows to 2012, and SQL Server to 2014 on the same servers and...
View ArticleAlwayson And Cluster Server
I would like to create A Cluster for Alwayson (SQL Server 2014) with Two nodes.My Question do I have to create three Server for the Two nodes1- One Server for The Cluster setup2- One Server for node...
View ArticleAlwaysOn & Instance Name
I do have two nodeseach node will have SQL Server instance installed.my question is does the SQL instances have to be identical for exampleNode1 -----> instance name :AlwaysonDB01Node2 ----->...
View Articleselect your data synchronization preference [Alwayson]
Is it recommended to create a shared folder some where in the SAN/NAS Storage or it has to be mandatory in NODE1 as primary node or what??what's the best practice and what's the Shared folder...
View ArticleError in Server Manager regarding windows cluster
Hi All,I am seeing the following error message in server manager for windows cluster:Configuration refresh failed with the following error: The metadata failed to be retrieved from the server, due to...
View ArticleAlwaysOn Checkpoints on Secondary Servers
Does anyone know how checkpoints work in AlwaysOn, specifically in regard to secondary servers.1. How do checkpoints get applied to secondary servers.2. I am able to run a checkpoint manually on a...
View ArticleSetting up availability group from replication
Hi Team,Need your advice, I have a databases in replication DB1 (primary) and DB2 (Secondary). planning to setting up AG in place of replication. DB1 is transaction production database where as DB2 is...
View ArticleDoes SQL Server 2014 support Group Managed Service Accounts for an AlwaysOn...
Does SQL Server 2014 support Group Managed Service Accounts for an AlwaysOn Availability Group?
View ArticleSQL Server high Availability Without Cluster
We have Server running with SQL 2008 SP2.Need to implement High Availability for Server, I have another Server with SQL 2012 Installed.We don't have SAN or other shared storage. so Always on is only...
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