DR from MECM

Question

Hello All,

I need to setup DR for MS Endpoint Configuration Manager standalone primary site hierarchy in my environment. I have standalone Database Server box for my Primary Site Server in DC.

Considering geographical location failover, As I understand that I need to configure one passive server in DR location. However few questions on Database , Content Library and Content Source locations as below:

1. As I read the MS article, SQL Server Always ON is recommended for SQL. Should we configure windows failover cluster across two data center locations? or as per MS article, we can configure SQL Server Always ON in Azure too, so how to configure WFCS in Azure? Can anyone share link or article on how to configure Windows Server Cluster as well as SQL Server Always ON for putting MECM DB in HA for this requirement.
2. Where should we ideally host Content Library and Content Source Files? Is it on another box from different location than DC or DR?

Any documentation available to configure DR for MECM would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Kedar

Answer 1

1. You can refer the MS articles for instructions on setting up the failover cluster instance https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/servers/deploy/configure/use-a-sql-server-cluster-for-the-site-database and SQL server HA https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/servers/deploy/configure/sql-server-alwayson-for-a-highly-available-site-database
2. For providing HA, you should not keep any client facing roles, storage or anything on the active/passive sites, if you do so, it is not HA because if the server goes down, you lost everything and you need to rebuild from backup or scratch. More information can read from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/servers/deploy/configure/high-availability-options#bkmk_snh

Thanks,
Eswar