Failover Cluster and Always ON with non standard configuration, hot to configure the failover?

  • Hello All

    I have an interesting case that I am still unable to make it work as I want

    I have 4 nodes, 2 at network A, one at network B and another at network C

    Each node has a stand alone sql instance

    All of them belong to the same availability group

    The listener has one ip for each subnet

    only nodes 1 and 2 are possible owners of the cluster and those two also have the synchronous copies of the databases at the AG

    My current issues is this, if the current host owner is node1 and in there I also have the primary replica, if I go in there and stop the sql instance the owner will change to node2 but the cluster host owner will remain at node1, in my perfect world I would have liked that to also switch to Node2, is what I wnat out of the ordinary? or what I am seeing is the normal behavior?

    Thanks in advance

  • the resource possible owners are set and managed by the availability group to cluster integration. You should not touch or change these

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  • This is normal. SQL Server AG "Cluster group" and "OS Cluster Group" are separated entities.

    Think as if you have two AG groups and one of them goes down because its disk are disconnected and then fails over other nod. There is no need to fail over the other AG cause its resources are intact. In your case OS Cluster Group resources keeps online so there is no need to change ownership to node 2.

  • thanks to all, there was also something wrong in the configuration of the listener, that is why I was seeing a "weird" behavior

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