AlwaysOn failover cluster session failover

  • Hi Expert,

    I need a advice.

    1. Once fail over to secondary replica, what will happen to connected session in primary node? can the session fail over to secondary seamlessly or need to re-login. what happen committed transactions which has not write to disk.

    2. Assume I have always on cluster with three nodes, if primary fails, how second node make write/ read mode.

    3. after fail over done to 2nd secondary node what mode in production(readonly or read write).

    4. how to rollback to production primary ,will change data in secondary will get updated in primary

    regards

    ud

  • Hi,

    Current sessions on the failing node will be lost. You have to add some logic in your application to reconnect.

  • Always On Failover Cluster

    or

    Always On Availability Groups on a Always On Failover Cluster

    Always On is just a marketing term, generally dropped as it means nothing really, so generally detail if its an Availability Group setup or just a plain cluster setup

    Linking to Perry's stairway on the topic

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/112556/

  • udara0306 (10/29/2015)


    Hi Expert,

    I need a advice.

    1. Once fail over to secondary replica, what will happen to connected session in primary node? can the session fail over to secondary seamlessly or need to re-login. what happen committed transactions which has not write to disk.

    Sessions will be disconnected, if you're using a listener the connections will be able to reconnect once this is started.

    All transactions are hardened to disk in the transaction log, dirty buffers are written in the background. Even so, a hardened record of any change exists.

    udara0306 (10/29/2015)


    2. Assume I have always on cluster with three nodes, if primary fails, how second node make write/ read mode.

    Please supply more detail, are these sessions synchronous or asynchronous? Do you have automatic failover configured?

    udara0306 (10/29/2015)


    3. after fail over done to 2nd secondary node what mode in production(readonly or read write).

    If you failover your alwayson group to a secondary node this then becomes the read\write primary

    udara0306 (10/29/2015)


    4. how to rollback to production primary ,will change data in secondary will get updated in primary

    regards

    ud

    If you wish to fail back to the previous primary another manual failover would be required, as long as the databases are synchronised the data will be safe

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  • Hi,

    My always on cluster 2 replica with sync mode and DR one with Async mode.

    regards

    ud

  • udara0306 (10/31/2015)


    Hi,

    My always on cluster 2 replica with sync mode and DR one with Async mode.

    regards

    ud

    If you have 2 replicas configured for synch mode and auto failover the transition will be automatic, hence the term auto failover. The secondary will become the new primary and the primary will become a secondary, this is based on the policy set when creating the AG

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