

The link below is a tutorial that can walk you through the steps inside the new SQL Server 2014 Add Azure Replica Wizard. This Blog does not provide a Step by Step guide to using the Add Azure Replica Wizard. In addition to covering the common failures we will present you with some basic troubleshooting steps to try and resolve any issue that is not covered in this Blog. As a result there are some unexpected failures that can occur, and this blog will cover some of the known common issues. There is a high level of automation to complete the tasks performed by the SQL Server Add Azure Replica Wizard.
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In addition after the provisioning phase completes it will install and configure the Windows Failover Clustering feature, and configure SQL Server to be a new secondary replica to your existing on premises availability group. During the creation (Provisioning phase) the new Virtual Machine will join your current on premises domain. VPN cannot be behind a NAT (Network Address Translation) device.Īs part of this new feature, the Add Azure Replica wizard will create a new Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure using an image that already has SQL Server 2014 installed. SQL Add Azure Replica Wizard Fails on Step ‘Joining secondary replicas to availability group’ SQL Add Azure Replica Wizard fails with ‘The hosted service name is invalid’ SQL Add Azure Replica Wizard Fails on Step ‘Configuring Endpoints.’ With error 53 (The network path was not found) and Step ‘Provisioning Windows Azure VM with error 1722 (The RPC server is unavailable)

It fails on: “Checking if the cluster name resource is online” The Add Replica to Availability Group wizard fail during group validation. Validation Error ‘Checking if the cluster name resource is online’ Fails Provisioning new virtual machine fails with error ‘The geo-location constraint…is invalid’ from Add Azure Replica: This replica is added to an existing availability group in your environment and connected to your existing AlwaysOn deployment via VPN.Īdd Azure Replica Wizard – Virtual Network drop down is empty SQL Server 2014 introduced a new feature that automates the creation of a new AlwaysOn replica hosted in Microsoft Azure.
