SQL Server AlwaysOn Phil Brammer, Database Administrator

SQL Server AlwaysOn Phil Brammer Database administrator and a seventh year Microsoft MVP in SQL Server and a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert. He has over 13 years’ data management experience in various technologies from reporting through ETL to database administration. Currently he manages nearly 200 SQL databases instances from gigabytes to multiple terabytes in size and is responsible for setting the vision for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska's database architectural roadmap. He is very active in the Microsoft SQL Server community and has contributed to books, SQL Saturdays, SQL PASS Summits, and local user groups. 2

Enhanced High Availability Group Databases Together Monitoring Dashboard Multi-Subnet Failover Redirect Read-Only Workloads Automatic Page Repair 3

Terminology AlwaysOn Availability Groups AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) Replicas and Roles Availability Group Listener Application Intent 4

Setup Clustering Install Clustering Create Cluster Add Nodes Cluster Validation Report 5

Setup SQL for AlwaysOn Use SQL Configuration Manager Use Powershell – get-item. | select IsHadrEnabled – Enable-SqlAlwaysOn -Path SQLSERVER:\SQL\Computer\Instance 6

Create Availability Group Create database in full recovery Setup fileshare for backup/restores Use Wizard Use Powershell Use T-SQL *AG Listener creation will likely fail – Need to set Active Directory permissions 7

Direct Read-Only Traffic Define Roles READ_ONLY_ROUTING_URL READ_ONLY_ROUTING_LIST Application_Intent=ReadOnly 8

Perform Backups Offload Backups Set Backup Priorities sys.fn_hadr_backup_is_preferred_replica 9

Resources Microsoft SQL Server High Availability us/sqlserver/solutions-technologies/mission- critical-operations/high-availability.aspx us/sqlserver/solutions-technologies/mission- critical-operations/high-availability.aspx AlwaysOn Solutions Guide /D20E1C5F-72EA F26- FEF9550EFD44/Microsoft%20SQL%20Server%20 AlwaysOn%20Solutions%20Guide%20for%20High %20Availability%20and%20Disaster%20Recovery. docx /D20E1C5F-72EA F26- FEF9550EFD44/Microsoft%20SQL%20Server%20 AlwaysOn%20Solutions%20Guide%20for%20High %20Availability%20and%20Disaster%20Recovery. docx 10

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