Symptoms
Assume that you use AlwaysOn availability groups (AG) in SQL Server 2017 on a Pacemaker cluster. You may notice that Pacemaker fails to promote an AG replica to the master role and the following error message:
Note
INFO: promote: ERROR: DateTime Could not promote local replica to PRIMARY role: RoleName: This operation cannot be performed on the availability group 'GroupName' because it has EXTERNAL cluster type. Use the cluster management tools to perform the operation.
Resolution
A fix for this problem is included in Cumulative Update 7 for SQL Server 2017.
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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