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Published May 06 AM Consider the following two examples: Example 1: As an administrator you decide to move a mailbox from DatabaseA to DatabaseB. The mailbox move completes successfully. However, immediately following the move operation, the server hosting the active copy of DatabaseB fails.
As a result, a portion of the mailbox data could be lost. Example 2: As an administrator you decide to move a collection of mailboxes within your Exchange RTM environment, whose entire data set fit on a single 1MB log file.
You schedule the moves and the mailboxes are successfully moved from DatabaseA to DatabaseB. At the time of the failure, the active log file that contained all of the data associated with the mailbox moves and the associated transactions was not replicated to the other copies. As a result, the copy mounts, but the moved mailboxes are not within DatabaseB.
In addition, because the Exchange Mailbox Replication service marked the mailbox moves as complete, the mailboxes are no longer within DatabaseA. Check Replication Flush - Confirm that the required log files have been replayed against the prerequisite number of database copies. When executed, the API returns the following information back to the calling application: Status information returns one of the following values: Retry : returned as a result of transient errors that prevent a condition from being checked against the database.
Satisfied : returned when the database meets the required conditions, or if the database is not replicated. NotSatisfied : returned when the database does not meet the required conditions. In addition, information is provided back to the calling application as to why the NotSatisfied response was returned.
How long the calling application should wait before attempting to check again. If copy information has not been collected, the default wait time is 10 seconds. If no healthy database copies are found, the default wait time is 2 minutes. If a healthy copy is found, but is slightly behind in replication, the default wait time is 1 minute. The maximum possible wait time is 10 minutes.
DataMoveReplicationConstraint The value for the DataMoveReplicationConstraint property of the mailbox database determines how many database copies should be evaluated as part of the request.
The DataMoveReplicationConstraint property has the following possible values: None : This is the default value when a mailbox database is created. When set to None, the data guarantee API conditions are ignored. This setting should only be used for mailbox databases are not replicated. For more information about Active Manager, see Active Manager.
In Exchange , you could deploy a DAG across two datacenters and host the witness in a third datacenter and enable failover for the Mailbox server role for either datacenter.
But you didn't get failover for the solution itself because the namespace still needed to be manually changed for the non-Mailbox server roles. Exchange leverages fault tolerance built into the namespace through multiple IP addresses, load balancing and if need be, the ability to take servers in and out of service. Modern HTTP clients work with this redundancy automatically. In a soft failure connection is lost after the session is established, perhaps due to an intermittent failure in the service where, for example, a device is dropping packets and needs to be taken out of service , the user might need to refresh their browser.
This means the namespace is no longer a single point of failure as it was in Exchange In Exchange , perhaps the biggest single point of failure in the messaging system is the FQDN that you give to users because it tells the user where to go. And you have name caches in browsers that are typically about 30 minutes or more that also have to be handled.
In Exchange Server, clients have more than one place to go. All supported HTTP clients have the ability to use multiple IP addresses, thereby providing failover on the client side. The client asks for mail. However many IP addresses the client gets back will be used reliably by the client. This makes the client a lot better off because if one of the IP addresses fails, the client has one or more alternative IP addresses to try to connect to.
If a client tries one and it fails, it waits about 20 seconds and then tries the next one in the list. Thus, if you lose the VIP for the Client Access service array, recovery for the clients happens automatically, and in about 21 seconds. In Exchange Server, if you lose the load balancer in your primary site, you simply turn it off or maybe turn off the VIP and repair or replace it. Clients that aren't already using the VIP in the secondary datacenter will automatically fail over to the secondary VIP without any change of namespace, and without any change in DNS.
Not only does that mean you no longer have to perform a switchover, but it also means that all of the time normally associated with a datacenter switchover recovery isn't spent. In Exchange and Exchange , you don't need to do that because you get fast failover 20 seconds of the namespace between VIPs datacenters. Because you can fail over the namespace between datacenters, all that's needed to achieve a datacenter failover is a mechanism for failover of the Mailbox server role across datacenters.
To get automatic failover for the DAG, you simply architect a solution where the DAG is evenly split between two datacenters, and then place the witness server in a third location so that it can be arbitrated by DAG members in either datacenter, regardless of the state of the network between the datacenters that contain the DAG members.
If you only have two datacenters and a third physical location isn't available, you can place the witness server on a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. In this scenario, the administrator's efforts are geared toward simply fixing the problem, and not spent restoring service.
You simply fix the thing that failed; while service has been running and data integrity has been maintained. The urgency and stress level you feel when fixing a broken device is nothing like the urgency and stress you feel when you're working to restore service. It's better for the end user, and less stressful for the administrator.
You can allow failover to occur without having to perform switchbacks sometimes mistakenly referred to as failbacks. If you lose servers in your primary datacenter, resulting in a 20 second interruption for clients, you might not even care about failing back. At this point, your primary concern would be fixing the core issue for example, replacing the failed load balancer. After it's back online and functioning, some clients will start using it, and other clients might remain operational through the second datacenter.
Exchange Server also provides functionality that enables administrators to deal with intermittent failures. An intermittent failure is where, for example, the initial TCP connection can be made, but nothing happens afterward.
An intermittent failure requires some sort of extra administrative action to be taken because it might be the result of a replacement device being put into service. While this repair process is occurring, the device might be powered on and accepting some requests, but not really ready to service clients until the necessary configuration steps are performed.
In this scenario, the administrator can perform a namespace switchover by simply removing the VIP for the device being replaced from DNS. Then during that service period, no clients will be trying to connect to it. It has brought us pain, uncertainty, fear and the knowledge that we were not prepared for something like this. Jobs and income have been lost; it is hard to purchase food, cover medical costs and pay other bills, such as utilities. Social distancing, as a measure to reduce transmission and not oversaturate the health systems of our countries, together with heightened cleanliness and hygiene measures, are the new standard.
Although we are still learning to navigate this situation and do not know when it will end or what possible permanent changes it will bring, we know that we must be better prepared for future incidents.
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