I'm testing out DFS and everything is working great in a standard scenario ie. 2 way sync and not using read only scenarios. However the following scenario below is not working for me, not sure if it's by design and not coming up with anything when researching.
3 Windows 2012 DFS servers
1. Create new replication group (tried both hub and spoke and full mesh no difference)
2. Set server1 as the primary and server2 and server3 as spokes
3. Provisions shares and set server2 and server 3 as read only.
4. Replication works as expected when I create a file on server1 it replicates to server 2 and 3.
I'm testing DR scenarios where I now shutdown server1 to simulate a failure.
1. Shutdown server1
2. Set server2 as read-write wait about 15 minutes for it to take affect. I create a file on server2 and it does not replicate to server 3 no matter how long you wait, restart DFS service etc. The only way to get replication to work is to power up server1 again
The above scenario works fine if all nodes are originally set up as read-write, you can power down any server and replication will still occur between the other nodes. However in a read only\read-write scenario it doesn't appear to work unless the original primary master is back up again. Thanks.
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