Cluster Aware Updating CAU It is nice tool given by Microsoft for windows cluster WSFC servers. How to configure for SQL servers. Open CAU – Type cluster name –connect the cluster server – click Analysis cluster updating readiness. Review the log, once all good, move on to configure. Click configure cluster self updating – Next next. I will not suggest to go default, make some change based on your environment, like failover apply node orders etc. Here is my configuration.
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Always on group missing disappeared SQL server database automatically
I just had an issue, after a CAU automatic patch, the AG always On group disappeared on secondary node, it was missing. A quick fix — Restart the cluster service. You can try to add the group back by T-SQL, you can try to add a dummy database and you can suspend one DB and resume. It just a test, this might work. Error log: A connection timeout has occurred on a previously established connection to availability replica ‘Primary Server’ with id [F58F54A2-F919-4BCF-9DB7-CBD2B10981BF]. Either a networking or a firewall issue exists or the availability replica has transitioned to the resolving role. Always On Availability Groups connection with primary database…
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AlwaysON SQL server database blocking SSISDB Active Operations
AlwaysON SQL server database blocking I had two blocking case on one of my alwaysON databases. Backup is third party tool and it got blocked by each other sessions. SSIS package deployed in SSIS folder and it run long and had blocking as well. The first one, tried to kill the session ID, it went in to rollback state and it took more than half day, no response. Fix: Just suspend the database in the primary AG this will remove the killed SPID. The second one, we can look into the Active Operations of packages. Integration service catalog – right click SSISDB – Active Operations
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Multi subnet sql alwayon cluster not connecting to sql database when application or alwayon failover
Multi subnet SQL alwayon cluster not connecting to SQL database when application server restarts or alwayon failover. In multi subnet we will have more than two ips, the active IP will be online and other ips will be offline. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SQL-Server-Support/Connection-Timeouts-in-Multi-subnet-Availability-Group/ba-p/318334 This Microsoft link will have more information. I just used this to give a workaround for one of our application. The application has MultiSubnetFailover=True. Open powershell as administrator. Run the following and pass the resource name. Get the resource name, it could be AG group name_Listener name – Get-ClusterResource Check the ‘RegisterAllProvidersIP’ value, if it is 1 change to 0 Get-ClusterResource “Cluster Resource Name” | Get-ClusterParameter Change the ‘RegisterAllProvidersIP’…
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None of the IP addresses configured for the availability group listener can be hosted by the server Either configure a public cluster network 19456
Requirement: Remove a node from one of availability alwayson group and added it on another group. It was a multi-subnet and the node is a DR node on a different subnet. You have to remove the IP from the group in the windows cluster go to run — cluadmin.msc — click roles — click the group –> click on server name expand it — remove the IP of the node it could be offline. Once deleted add it on the other group by the listener or from the cluster. Background: It is a three node cluster two in same data center and third node is in DR data center. TITLE:…