Need to take down a dedicated distributor SQL 2005 server for maintenance window

  • My ops team is going to move the physical storage of our SAN into a

    different rack. They will be powering down my dedicated distributor,

    used for brokering transactional replication w/ Push subscriptions

    from one publisher.

    Is there any best practice I should follow? I was told the window

    would possibly be 2 hours.

    The retention period is the default (all settings are actually set to

    default).

    The replication share is on the physical drives they are moving.

    Subscribers are all in the same switch, always connected.

    I was thinking about setting the services for the distributor's SQL

    and Agent services to manual, power it down, do the maintenance, bring

    the server back up, set the services to Auto again and start.

    Do I have anything to worry about on the publisher or any other

    suggestions?

    Thanks 😀

    Erik

  • Erik (7/1/2008)


    My ops team is going to move the physical storage of our SAN into a

    different rack. They will be powering down my dedicated distributor,

    used for brokering transactional replication w/ Push subscriptions

    from one publisher.

    Is there any best practice I should follow? I was told the window

    would possibly be 2 hours.

    The retention period is the default (all settings are actually set to

    default).

    The replication share is on the physical drives they are moving.

    Subscribers are all in the same switch, always connected.

    I was thinking about setting the services for the distributor's SQL

    and Agent services to manual, power it down, do the maintenance, bring

    the server back up, set the services to Auto again and start.

    Do I have anything to worry about on the publisher or any other

    suggestions?

    Thanks 😀

    Erik

    Make sure you have enough "free" log space on the publisher if transactions are going to happen during that time. Distribution agents will pickup where they left off last time.


    * Noel

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