Hey folks
In prep for a project to shift to Exchange online early next year, I'm trying to get the current on-premise to work as quickly as possible.
I've built 2 new MBX servers onto SSD based VSAN storage, and am testing failover behavior.
I have 2 source LIVE MBX servers that I have seeded DB's from already, and am now doing another test from the existing Passive DB's that are in another Datacenter onto this new storage infra. Anyway, this is just detail.
The problem:
- I created Test DB 1 on the other Datacenter PASSIVE Server. DC2_Server_A
- Created a Test DB 1 COPY on the new SSD stuff. DC1_Server_C
I can successfully switch between those servers manually and it works no problem.
However, if I Stop the Information store on DC2_Server_A, the Mounted DB does dismount, BUT, it doesn't seem to even try and mount on the partner server (DC1_Server_C)..... The Content Index state on the partner server just
suddenly reports *failed*, whereas seconds before it would report *Healthy*.
What I've tried:
1. Deleted the partner servers Catalogue folder and reset it. Same problem
2. Checked the status of the dismounted DB on DC2_Server_A using eseutil, it's a clean shutdown
3. made absolutely sure that the activation block I had put on the partner server has been set back to "unrestricted" as opposed to "BLOCKED".
Not sure what else to try. the partner server keep reporting the following at the point I stop the information store on the source server:
""Exchange Search Indexer failed to enable the Mailbox Database C12ReplicationTest (GUID = 7fba9bff-d7bb-40fb-b8ff-c40599449fb2) after 1 tries. The last failure was: MapiExceptionNetworkError: Unable to get CI watermark.""
Any ideas what I can try next?
Coop