Hi Gurus,
I've a planned activity scheduled to migrate SharePoint SQL VM's into new hardware. we have 3 nodes cluster with One node is primary and other two are secondary node.There is synchronous commit with automatic failover between primary and secondary with synchronized
state and other node is Asynchronous commit with manual failover in synchronizing state. Both secondaries nodes have been already migrated to new hardware.Only primary node is left
There is a request to shutdown primary node completely (including apps server and web server) without failing over to secondary node. What is the best practice to shutdown primary node without failover to secondary? Is there any sequence I need to follow?
Also when I shutdown primary node , do I need change from Automatic failover to manual, so that it won't failover automatically to secondary node?
Also, what steps or sequence do I follow when I shutdown primary node completely? like stop SQL services, cluster stop..etc
Once VM migration is complete, what other things do I need to bring up primary node? and how they sync up with secondary node?
I assume once I bring up primary it should sync up automatically but in case if its not syncing then what may need to look?
I don't want to break anything just wanted to make sure everything is running as expected.
Please help me out.
Regards,
Ken