I am upgrading my application's SQL Server from 2008 R2 to 2012.

As discussed in the below URL I am able to see the Identity jump after I upgrade and the server is restarted.

Now since I cannot afford this and at this moment I do not have the time to create a sequence with NOCACHE and test it again I have to go ahead and add trace flag 272 in the start up parameter as this is the only solution which I can implement and even rollback without much hassles.

http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/739013/alwayson-failover-results-in-reseed-of-identity

I have searched a lot but nowhere I found any kind of documentation around this flag. What I got to know by reading several web literatures is, this flag will disable the new feature of IDENTITY property that has been implemented as part of SQL Server 2012 and will make it work like it was doing in SQL Server 2008 R2.

But I want to know implementing this flag would impact any other feature or performance (except the performance of IDENTITY, that I can bear with) of SQL Server.

Thanks
Soumyadeb