We have a non-production SQL AAG. One primary replica and one secondary replica with a continuous sync. Its mainly used for testing. To save some money we would like to shut down all nodes in the cluster each night and bring them back up again in the morning.
I have the scripts to do this – but I wondered if there would be any issues with simply powering down all nodes at once and then bringing them back up again in the morning all at the same time?
There are 3 servers (all Server 2016)– one is the SQL primary replica, one is the SQL secondary replica and there is a quorum server. Will I be causing issues with them all closing down and starting up within minutes of one another or will they be able to work themselves out automatically without any intervention each morning? I'd rather not have a battle each morning fixing the aag!
Thanks!