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VMware snapshots playing havoc with availability groups

May 30, 2016 / Leave a Comment

DBA’s, have you ever woken up one morning and found your SQL 2012, 2014 or 2016 Availability Group had mysteriously failed over during the wee hours? Of course there can be several legitimate reasons why it failed over (Windows Cluster or Quorum issue, O/S resources, SQL Server/node rebooted, SQL Services restarted, lost network connectivity, storage … [Read more…]

Posted in: SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2012, High Availability, RPO / RTO, AlwaysOn Availability Groups Tagged: vmware, snapshots, esx, esxi, freezing, timeouts

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