I have a question about what to expect as a normal failover time for SQL server 2012 clustering. My environment is as followings:
2 - windows 2008 R2 ent.
2 - SQL server 2012 Std. (installed as an A/P cluster)
SAN storage for the SQL install locations.
Without any real load on the server the failover takes about 21 seconds. I have tested a manual failover with the "Target Recovery Time (Seconds) set to 0 and 1. I have run some updates to a test table to see if anything would increase (or decrease) the amount of time it takes to failover. But everything I do, I get about 20-21 seconds for the failover process to complete.