Hi,
We have a Hyper-V cluster in Windows 2012 R2 with 3 hosts.
We also have outside this cluster a physical Domain contoller and we have 2 virtual DCs in the cluster.
In the cluster we have several VM's and for the specific problem we have 3 VM's as:
1 SQL Olap Engine (2008R2)
1 SQL Engine (2005)
1 SQL engine with SAP (2005)
The data flow is something like, the OLAP engine starts the SSIS to call several Sprocedures that are in the SQL engine, that collects data from SQL and SAP SQL. All the data is stored in the SQL (Staging and warehouse) and the OLAP runs in the warehouse
that is stored in SQL.
Last friday, the DC connection to the cluster went down because a switch was powered off. This switch was offline for 1.5h. Since this date we are having a strange issue.
All three SQL machines were in different hosts.
The SQL in host 1, the OLAP in host 2 and the SAP SQL in host 3.
During the night after the problem, when the jobs (SSIS) to create cubes (collects data to staging and warehouse and then SSAS runs on warehouse) runned the first time it gave an error like:
" Executing the query "EXEC XXXXX;" failed with the following error: "Communication link failure". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly,
or connection not established correctly. "
After this, and without any problem doing pings and transfer files between the machines, they were restarted (The hosts were never restarted untill now!).
So, I've put all the machines in the same host and the problem disappeared. After a week, I've moved only the Olap engine to another host, and the problem appeared again.
We don't see any event in the cluster, and we don't see any real network problem.
Also, I can open all SQL servers on any of the servers using the management studio. I've opened the SSIS projects and the connectivity is ok without any problem. It only appears when these SSIS packages run.
Any idea on what can be the issue?
Note: I'm doing some other tests, and I'll share the tests and results during the next days.