AlwaysOn Availability Group and FCI using CSV

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AlwaysOn Availability Group and FCI using CSV

Lijun Zhang

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December 26, 2016 at 9:24 am

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Hi,
I am planning to install a 2 nodes FCI using CSV as the primary replica, and a separate standard alone instance as a secondary replica for reporting.
The official SQL 2014 document states you can setup FCI use CSV, but the following blog says CSV does not support AlwaysOn Group. Start from 0:43:45 in the video.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2014/05/08/deploying-sql-server-2014-with-cluster-shared-volumes/
Has anyone successfully setup AlwaysOn Group with FCI use CSV. I want to know if this is possible, or is there any "gotcha".
Thanks,
Lijun

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 1

Heh... I can't help because I don't do these types of things but I think the use of the abbreviation of "CSV" is hilarious. Only Microsoft would name something other than Comma Separated Values as CSV.

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Lijun Zhang (12/26/2016)
Hi,
I am planning to install a 2 nodes FCI using CSV as the primary replica, and a separate standard alone instance as a secondary replica for reporting.
The official SQL 2014 document states you can setup FCI use CSV, but the following blog says CSV does not support AlwaysOn Group.

What is the issue that you are having? The AG will treat your FCI as one node, so shared storage relating to the FCI shouldn't be an issue.

Always On Availability Groups does not depend on any form of shared storage. However, if you use a SQL Server failover cluster instance (FCI) to host one or more availability replicas, each of those FCIs will require shared storage as per standard SQL Server failover cluster instance installation.

Perry Whittle SSC Guru Points: 234013 More actions · Answer 3

Lijun Zhang (12/26/2016)
Hi,
I am planning to install a 2 nodes FCI using CSV as the primary replica, and a separate standard alone instance as a secondary replica for reporting.
The official SQL 2014 document states you can setup FCI use CSV, but the following blog says CSV does not support AlwaysOn Group. Start from 0:43:45 in the video.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2014/05/08/deploying-sql-server-2014-with-cluster-shared-volumes/
Has anyone successfully setup AlwaysOn Group with FCI use CSV. I want to know if this is possible, or is there any "gotcha".
Thanks,
Lijun

CSV's are supported in sql 2014 onwards.

I can't think of any reason why they would not be supported at all with AGs.

Traditionally, Availability Group nodes would have local storage. If this is the case and they have no SAN storage presented then CSV's would not be available.

Each node would need the relevant hardware and software to have LUNs presented that are configured as CSV's within the cluster.

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