Hi Subasish,
I'm trying to test preferred Site and multi-master datacenters with SQL Server FCIs but my tests seem to be unsucessfull for the moment. My environment includes 4 cluster nodes, 1 FSW and 2 SQL FCIs.
Firstly, I configured the first two nodes (node1, node2) with "site1" and the two others (node3, node4) with "site2".
Then I configured my first SQL Server FCI role (SQL1) with preferred site = "site1" and the second (SQL2) with preferred site = "site2".
The starting scenario consists in placing the SQL1 on the node1 and the SQL2 on the node3. When I simulate a failure of the node3, SQL2 fails over to the node2 but I expected node4 as the next target. I took a look at the preferred owner list of the SQL2 role because I expected the list was modified by the site awareness configuration.
Does I missed out something?
Thanks