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WSFC Cluster Configuration on Windows Azure Virtual Machines

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Windows Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) are currently in preview at www.windowsazure.com. SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery solutions are supported on Windows Azure VMs.

For AlwaysOn Availability Groups, there is currently no support for availability group listeners in Windows Azure. Also, you must work around a DHCP limitation in Windows Azure when creating Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) clusters in Windows Azure. For more information, see Configuring Windows Failover Cluster in Windows Azure for AlwaysOn Availability Groups.

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  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2013
    Does the above workaround rescind the statement made here (msdn.microsoft.com/.../jj156165.aspx) regarding SQL Clustering not being supported in Windows Azure?

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2013
    Hi Monish, The statement made at your link is "Currently, there is no support for SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. In addition, you cannot use the Windows Server Failover Clustering for any purposes except the SQL Server Always On Availability Groups without Listeners." This statement still stands because SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances is still not supported on Windows Azure, and AlwaysOn AVailability Groups is supported on Windows Azure but without the listener, as the statement suggests. Other HADR solutions supported in Windows Azure are database mirroring, log shipping, etc. For more dicussion on this, see  msdn.microsoft.com/.../jj870962.aspx.

  • Anonymous
    July 29, 2013
    Any updates on when Availability Listeners will be available in Azure? Thanks -

  • Anonymous
    October 13, 2014
    I am unable to add another node to cluster, did anyone encounter the error. Name

CLUSCFIT1 Verify that cluster is present after creation Bring offline the cluster name resource Cluster Name Get all IP addresses associated with cluster group Found 1 IP addresses Bringing all IPs offline Cluster IP Address Get the first IPv4 resource Removing all IPs except one IPv4 resource Setting the cluster IP address to a link local address Cluster Name Adding other nodes to the cluster Report file location: C:WindowsclusterReportsAdd Node Wizard 1f4a6c18-5be2-4340-9719-c170294a6aa1 on 2014.10.13 At 2 3.39.28.mht Add-ClusterNode : An error occurred while performing the operation.    An error occurred while adding nodes to the cluster 'CLUSCFIT1'.    An error occurred while adding node 'AZCUITSMIISUAT2.redmond.corp.microsoft.com' to cluster 'CLUSCFIT1'.    This operation returned because the timeout period expired At D:PSCreateAzureFailoverCluster.ps1:208 char:30

  •                              Add-ClusterNode "$_" } }
  •                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Add-ClusterNode], ClusterCmdletException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Add-ClusterNode,Microsoft.FailoverClusters.PowerShell.AddClusterNodeCommand Cluster creation finished !