The error message doesn't look like it's related to a query timeout since it appears that it's trying to connect to the Principal server. The database is configured for...

So I attempted the install:

"Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Native Client

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client (SQL Server Native Client) is a single dynamic-link library (DLL) containing both the...

I checked the driver version and it's running:

SQL Server 2008 0x730B0003

SQL Server 2000 0x71000001

Is there a SQL Server 2008 R2 driver? Could I install a SQL Server 2012 or...

Oh really?? Can you please tell me more about the older version of OLEDB and how you fixed it?? :w00t:

Thank you for the responses!

I just wanted to make sure that the servers will be configured correctly before going into production to prevent future issues.

I did...

Thanks!

Yes, I added the SQL Server service account as well as my account to the Perform Volume Maintenance Tasks policy.

Grant Fritchey (3/30/2016)

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Not really. You don't mix and match between Availability Groups and a Failover cluster. Well, that's not quite true. You can put a database in a failover cluster...

As far as I understand it, AlwaysOn is built on top of WSFC so WSFC needs to contain both nodes. You do have the option to share the storage,...

Haha... The VM/SAN admin responsibilities falls under my hat. Oh boy.

Thank you!

Copying a 2.7 GB file...

VM:

36.7 seconds

Physical Server:

3.4 seconds

Wow!

Thank you!

Is there an IO testing program you would recommend?

Oh, another possible reason could be that the VMs are SQL Server 2016 and the physical server is SQL Server 2008 R2... Prod database is in SQL Server 2008...

Thank you for the quick response!

The VMs and the physical server are on different SAN groups. This is the breakdown of the volumes...

VMs:

SQL Data: RAID 6 Accelerated (Equallogic SAN...

Blah... For some reason, my mount point didn't take. Instead, there was a file folder that was created.

Hmm... I'm getting the "There is not enough space on the disk" error again. The resolution to my previous "not enough space" was to create a folder within...