Simulating a Multi Subnet cluster for setting up SQL Server Always On Availability Groups – lab setup

In this article, we are going to see how to create a multi subnet cluster spanning across multiple subnets for lab purposes. Creating such an environment should help creating Availability groups simulating a far replica residing in a different Data Center (Subnet) acting as a disaster recovery site in your lab for learning/experimenting real world scenarios.

Let’s get into action, below is what we are going to setup for our lab purposes to simulate a multi subnet cluster environment and create an Always On Availability group.

  • Two nodes (Replicas) residing in my production/primary Data center (Subnet 192.168.1.x) – Let’s say these two replicas are used for High availability, assuming we have low latency, since they are residing in the same data center (Probably in the same rack), I will set them up with Synchronous Mode with Automatic Failover
  • Third node (Replica) sitting in my disaster recovery data center which is geographically dispersed (Subnet 192.168.2.x) – Assuming it’s connected over WAN and is used just for DR purposes, I would set this replica in Asynchronous Mode with Manual Failover

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Simulating a Multi Subnet cluster for setting up SQL Server Always On Availability Groups – lab setup

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