Building your first sql server cluster
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Building your first sql server cluster
- 1. Building your first SQL Server Cluster Joe D’Antoni SQL Saturday #69 Philadelphia 05 March 2011
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- 4. Vice President of the Philadelphia SQL Server User Group
- 7. High availability—why do you need it? Architectures—HA and DR Planning—who needs to be in the room? Definitions—It helps to have a glossary Technical—what do you need to do? Support—How is supporting this environment different from supporting a standalone Agenda
- 8. Why do you need a HA environment? Remember HA is not DR. High Availability
- 9. SQL Server Clustering SQL Server Mirroring Peer to Peer Replication SQL Server Log Shipping* High Availability Options in SQL
- 10. Backup and Recovery Mirroring Log Shipping Replication SAN Replication* Virtualization* DR Options in SQL Server 2008
- 11. Hardware Protection O/S Protection High availability Clustering - Why
- 12. Depends on size of your IT organization Windows System Admins DBAs Storage Admins Network Admins Ideally—application leads Clustering—Who
- 13. RTO—Recovery Time Objective. How long can your systems be down before impacting the business RPO—Recovery Point Objective. How much data can you lose before affecting the business. Cluster—The Windows cluster (consisting of 1 or more nodes) that your SQL Server instance runs on top of Resource Group—services and disks that are associated with your clustered service (in this case SQL) Multi-instance/single-instance—Official MS terms for active-active and active-passive clusters Some Definitions
- 14. SAN—storage area network, a box of many disks which can be presented to multiple servers LUN—Officially Logical Unit Number, but practically a disk volume presented from SAN to a server(s) Mount Points—Naming method for Windows disk devices, attaching many devices to single drive letter Node—The physical (or virtual) Windows machine supporting your cluster More Definitions
- 15. Failover Cluster Manager—The utility in Windows that provides for cluster management and verification. Quorum disk—Disk that verifies all of the nodes in the cluster can talk to each other Looksalive/Isalive—Processes which verify if cluster services are still running and initiates failover More Definitions
- 16. Two Servers SAN Network IP Addresses What you need to build a cluster?
- 17. Storage Network
- 18. Storage Network
- 19. Almost all SANs will do You may need to update your SAN firmware Windows 2008R2 Requires iSCSI-3 persistent reservations Work closely with your storage team, to ensure proper disks (mainly for performance) LUNs must be presented to all cluster nodes SAN
- 20. Add Failover Cluster feature to your server nodes Windows Firewall Antivirus Validate your cluster Name your cluster, and reserve its IP address Start using mount points to label your disks!!!! In a multi-instance cluster, it’s really easy to run out of drive letters Windows
- 22. Mount Points -- Windows
- 23. Storage Network + Server/Windows + Switch
- 25. Many, many IP addresses and aliases Heartbeat Network DTC Clustername Instance Service Of course, the base node Verify ports are not blocked Network I would put this slide after the windows one…I would build from the physical (SAN, Servers/Windows, switch), to the “less physical” (network)
- 26. Storage Network + Server/Windows + Switch + IPs
- 27. SQL Server
- 28. Cluster DTC Service (requirement) Slipstream SP1 installation Install SQL using “Create New Failover Cluster Option” Install first on the node that is the current owner of the disks you would like to use Must install SQL on each node SQL Server 2008 Install
- 29. This should be pretty easy!! Select the add node option—then select the instance you just created You will then have to specify passwords for the services Installation should be complete Do a failover for test purposes Second Node Installation
- 30. Memory pressure in multi-instance SQL Backups and Restores must be performed from drives owned by the cluster service This is more of a hardware consideration—but HBA traffic Remember—this isn’t a shared everything environment Considerations for SQL Server
- 31. Performance is generally the same as in a standalone instance Test your applications SSIS—use MSDB storage and rely on server for security Application Considerations
- 32. Windows Updates Firmware Upgrades SQL Server CPs and SPs Leveraging your Cluster
- 33. Understand your HA and DR priorities Know who needs to be involved in planning process Build your cluster Test your applications! Summary
- 34. Great book—Pro SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering by Allan Hirt Paul Randal—White Paper on HA Solutions in SQL 2008 Slipstreaming SQL Server Install Building a cluster from MS Bibliography
- 35. Questions