Hi all,
We've been tasked in creating a automatic failover between SQL servers that reside in different datacenters in the result of a complete datacenter failure.
We've worked with AVG before, and have used file share witness as the quorum. The problem we see is, because we only have two datacenters, the file share has to reside in a datacenter that accommodates one of the SQL servers, therefore if that datacenter goes down, so does the quorum, and the cluster will fail.
Therefore I can only see two ways round this - either host the file share quorum in a third datacenter/remote location, or create two clusters, each with a file share quorum, one in each DC with write databases on each primary node, so if we did lose one datacenter only one cluster gets knocked out.
Or is there a more elegant solution? The goal is to have automatic failover.
Thanks,