Disaster Recovery Using AlwaysON Availability Group – Scenario 1

Environment

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-> Disaster Recovery scenario is as below,

  • PRIMARY DATA CENTRE goes down. 
  • The databases on Server JBSERVER2 should be made online and have the application connect to Database Server JBSERVER2. 
  • Failback Availability group back to JBSERVER1 when PRIMARY DATA CENTRE comes online. 
  • The changes made by the Application on JBSERVER2\IN2014 should be relayed to JBSERVER1\IN2014

-> Checking the current AlwaysON setup in SQL Server Management Studio,

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-> The Database JB_DB contains a table named Table5, which we will use for testing.

USE [JB_DB]
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Table5](
[sno] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
       [sname] [char](2000) NULL,
       [sname1] [char](2000) NULL,
[sname2] [char](2000) NULL,
PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
       [sno] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
Set nocount on
insert into Table5 values ('a','b','c')
go 10002

-> Checking the row count for object Table5,

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-> The PRIMARY DATA CENTRE goes down. 2 votes are lost as Database Server JBSERVER1 and file share witness is down. Now that 2 votes out of 3 votes are lost, the cluster goes down.

-> Checking the SQL Server instance and Eventlogs on JBSERVER2 when the Primary Data Centre is down.

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-> Implementing Force Quorum on JBSERVER2.

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-> Checking the SQL Server Instance after Force Quorum,

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-> I will suspend the data movement now,

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-> Right-click the availability group to be failed over, and select Failover.

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-> Checking the SQL Server Instance after the failover with data loss.

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-> The application can now connect to SQL Server Instance JBSERVER2\IN2014 using the Listener and use it. Let us insert a single row to the table for testing and make sure if it can be seen later after the failback.

insert into Table5 values (‘a’,’b’,’c’)
go
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-> The PRIMARY DATA CENTRE comes online. Database Server JBSERVER1 and File witness are online now.

-> Connecting to JBSERVER1\IN2014 and Suspending the data movement,

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-> On SQL Server Instance JBSERVER2\IN2014, we will resume the data movement.

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-> On SQL Server Instance JBSERVER1\IN2014, we will resume the data movement.

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-> Checking the SQL Server Instance now,

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-> We will failback the Alwayson Availability group to JBSERVER1\IN2014,

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-> Checking the row count for object Table5 on JBSERVER1\IN2014 after failback,

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Thank You,
Vivek Janakiraman

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