SQL Server 2008 R2 Mirroring issues

Question

I have this very frustrating problem that I've been trying to figure out for almost a week now. I have two SQL Server 2008 R2 STD w/SP3 box running on Windows 2012 R2 with two instances each, Server1 is the PRIMARY and Server2 is the MIRROR. Server2 was purchased for the purpose of mirroring so no live DBs yet. But Server1 is already in production. So here's the complete detailed setup for both.

Created a domain\user account and used it for both Servers' SQLService

Principal Server Configuration

• Name: SERVER1.domain.com
• NIC1 : 172.xx.xx.80
• NIC2 : 172.xx.xx.81 (use for mirroring)
• Named Instances: INSTANCE1 and INSTANCE2

Mirror Server Configuration

• Name: SERVER2.domain.com
• NIC1 : 172.xx.xx.82
• NIC2 : 172.xx.xx.83 (use for mirroring)
• Named Instances: INSTANCE1 and INSTANCE2

NO WITNESS YET

Static A records in DNS server

172.xx.xx.81 dbm-pri.domain.com and 172.xx.xx.83 dbm-mir.domain.com

Here's what's done on both servers:

1. checked SQL Server Config Manager and made sure TCP is enabled, then added the ports to be used in IPAll field

2. restarted the SQL Service (at one point of despair I restarted the servers itself, yes even the one running on production)

3. run netstat and confirmed that the endpoint ports are LISTENING, (sqlserver.exe), also run ping and tracert all tests are good

4. from both PRINCIPAL and MIRROR, ran telnet FQDN port, confirmed that I can connect from/to both

5. created the endpoints on both servers

PRINCIPAL

    CREATE ENDPOINT INSTANCE1_EndPoint
       STATE=STARTED
       AS TCP (LISTENER_PORT=6025,LISTENER_IP=(172.xx.xx.81))
       FOR DATABASE_MIRRORING (ROLE=PARTNER)

MIRROR

    CREATE ENDPOINT INSTANCE1_EndPoint
       STATE=STARTED
       AS TCP (LISTENER_PORT=6025,LISTENER_IP=(172.xx.xx.83))
       FOR DATABASE_MIRRORING (ROLE=PARTNER)

6. granted CONNECT permission to the domain\user account

   CREATE LOGIN [domain\user] 
   FROM WINDOWS 
   WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master], DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=[us_english]
   GO
   
   GRANT CONNECT on ENDPOINT::INSTANCE1_EndPoint TO [domain\user]
   GO
   

7. backed up and restored the DB and logs with NO RECOVERY

8. ran alter db set partner on the mirror server

   ALTER DATABASE DBName SET PARTNER = 'TCP://dbm-pri.domain.com:6025'
   

9. ran alter db set partner on principal server

   ALTER DATABASE DBName SET PARTNER = 'TCP://dbm-mir.domain.com:6025'
   

   Error:

   Msg 1418, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
   The server network address "TCP://dbm-mir.domain.com:6025" can not be reached or does not exist...

10. tested netstat, ping, tracert and telnet on both Servers, all are successful

I've tried re doing this so many times now and I'm lost for ideas

Answer 1

Have you tried using an IP address? I have seen an issue in R2 in the past whereby SQL Server was unable to resolve an FQDN but was fine with an IP address.

Answer 2

You may have already attempted this, but I must ask: Have you attempted to initialize mirroring via the SSMS GUI?

In SSMS on principle server, right-click database --> Mirror --> Configure Security.

I'm curious if the same error message is generated from the GUI. Can you establish a connection to your mirror server from the principle server via SSMS?

Answer 3

Sometime before even I faced the same issue while configuring database mirroring.

Generally SQL Server Database Mirroring Error 1418 occurs due to connection problem between endpoints.

Below checks can be followed in order to fix this issue:

• Check TCP/IP port and ensure that it is enabled for both instances.
• Ensure that the system Firewall is not blocking the SQL Server port.
• Ensure that Database Mirroring endpoints/ports are used only by database mirroring process. If another process is listening on the port assigned to database mirroring endpoints, the database mirroring processes cannot communicate with each other.
• Finally check the SQL Server Accounts used to run the SQL Server Service.
• Ensure that the same SQL Server Accounts are used in both instances involved in the database mirroring.
• It is recommended that we use domain accounts for all partners.

1. Open the SQL Server Configuration Manager or Services.msc
2. And ensure that the SQL Server and SQL Server Agent's services are running with the same credentials.
3. Check the credentials used in the mirror database server.
4. Ensure that the credentials used in the mirror database server are exactly similar to the principal server.
5. If the user is not created then create a new one on the both servers with same credentials.
6. Once the user is created on the servers> Login to the principal server > open SQL Server instance and add the new login under Security and map the user with the SQL Login. 7. Once the server user is mapped with the SQL instance; assign Sysadmin role to that login on the SQL Server.
7. Follow the step 7 on the mirror server as well.

After all these checks the error 1418 must be resolved.

Answer 4

It could be a possibility port number 6025 might be used by another application try changing the port number .

Answer 5

I also had the same problem while implementing mirroring to one of my customers, the problem was SQL server Service account for both instances must be a domain name. Once again confirm that.

And try this too.

GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::Mirroring TO ALL