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Storage Replica Stretch Cluster Won't Come on at remote site

Everett Arconti 0 Reputation points
2023-03-08T14:35:14.0933333+00:00

I have seemingly successfully created a Storage Replica stretch cluster between my on-prem datacenter and my Azure network. I have 2 nodes in each site using shared iSCSI storage. I've configured synchronous replication but if I shut down the 2 servers at the source site the 2 in Azure will not come online. All of my cluster validation passes so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'd love some help.

Is there more documentation available than https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-replica/storage-replica-overview? It feels lacking.

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  1. Alex Bykovskyi 2,241 Reputation points
    2023-04-05T21:39:53.3133333+00:00

    Hey, Have you checked cluster logs? As far as I know, you should manually Failover to another node of your cluster. Might help:
    https://serverfault.com/questions/1095480/stretch-cluster-file-server-with-storage-replica-partnership-not-reversing-on As another option, you can use StarWind VSAN to configure replication between your nodes and achieve automatic failover.

    https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san

    Cheers, 
    Alex Bykovskyi 
    StarWind Software 
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