Building a SQL 2012 HA Solution for SharePoint (In under an hour) Troy Lanphier Senior SharePoint Solutions Developer – GUIO, LLC Zero to High Availability

Building a SQL 2012 HA Solution for SharePoint(In under an hour)

Troy LanphierSenior SharePoint Solutions Developer – GUIO, LLC

Zero to High Availability in 60 Minutes

2 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013

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THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF SHAREPOINT SATURDAY AUSTIN!

SharePoint Saturday Austin is hosted bythe Austin SharePoint User Group

(@AustinSPUG)

Today’s Goal – AlwaysOn in 60 Minutes

Where we’ll start:



• MARS – Domain Controller




• ROMULUS – Win Server 2012 (SQL bits installed)





• REMUS – Win Server 2012 (SQL bits installed)





• REMUS – Win Server 2012 (SQL bits installed)

• RHEA – Win Server 2012 (SP 2013 bits installed)


Where we’ll end up:







• WS 2012 Failover Cluster (ROMULUS and REMUS)





• SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group






• (ROMULUS and REMUS Independent SQL Nodes)






• (ROMULUS and REMUS Independent SQL Nodes)

• RHEA – Win Server 2012 (SharePoint Configured)

SQL Server High Availability

SQL Server High Availability (By Edition)

SQL Server Business Intelligence and Standard:



• Database Mirroring (Safety Full Only)




• DEPRECATED in 2012, possibly unavailable thereafter




• DEPRECATED in 2012, possibly unavailable thereafter

• Failover Clustering (Two Nodes Only)


SQL Server Enterprise (and Developer):



• Database Mirroring




• Still DEPRECATED





• Failover Clustering (OS Maximum)





• Failover Clustering (OS Maximum)

• AlwaysOn Availability Groups

The Setup

The Setup

Quorum Drive pre-built (5GB) on MARS (DC)

The Setup


Networking pre-built:

The Setup



• Heartbeat NIC – Non-routed

• Storage – iSCSI NIC

• Intrafarm – All Farm Communications

The Setup



• Heartbeat NIC – Non-routed

• Storage – iSCSI NIC

• Intrafarm – All Farm Communications

Firewalls Disabled

Step 1Setting Up iSCSI Storage

Setting Up iSCSI Storage

Ensure that Windows Firewall is Off, or configure TCP Ports



Setup iSCSI Initiator on SQL Servers




Setup iSCSI Target on DC




Setup iSCSI Target on DC

Connect Storage in iSCSI Initiator

Step 2Configure DNS and Install Failover Clustering

Configure DNS and Failover Clustering

Initial DNS Entries


Initial DNS Entries

Cluster Installation


Initial DNS Entries


Assign Permissions in DNS to the A Record


Initial DNS Entries


Assign Permissions in DNS to the A Record

Quorum Drive Addition

Step 3Configure Availability Groups

Configure Availability Groups

Enable AlwaysOn Availability Groups



SQL Configuration



SQL Configuration

• Create Seed Database and Backup



SQL Configuration


• Create Availability Group

• Create Availability Listener



SQL Configurations


• Create Availability Group

• Create Availability Listener

• Build Backup Share

Step 4Configure SharePoint 2013

Step 5Adding SharePoint 2013 Content Databases to Availability Groups


• SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/gg490638.aspx• Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2012 - http://

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx

REFERENCES

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/gg490638.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/gg490638.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx

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Building a SQL 2012 HA Solution for SharePoint (In under an hour) Troy Lanphier Senior SharePoint Solutions Developer – GUIO, LLC Zero to High Availability