InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Solutions Guide - Windows
- Section I. Introduction
- Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions
- Using the Solutions Configuration Center
- SFW best practices for storage
- Section II. Quick Recovery
- Section III. High Availability
- High availability: Overview
- How VCS monitors storage components
- Deploying InfoScale Enterprise for high availability: New installation
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Configuring disk groups and volumes
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- About modifying the cluster configuration
- About installing and configuring the application or server role
- Configuring the service group
- About configuring file shares
- About configuring IIS sites
- About configuring applications using the Application Configuration Wizard
- About configuring the Oracle service group using the wizard
- Modifying the application service groups
- Adding DMP to a clustering configuration
- High availability: Overview
- Section IV. Campus Clustering
- Introduction to campus clustering
- Deploying InfoScale Enterprise for campus cluster
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Reviewing the configuration
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- Creating disk groups and volumes
- Installing the application on cluster nodes
- Section V. Replicated Data Clusters
- Introduction to Replicated Data Clusters
- Deploying Replicated Data Clusters: New application installation
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- Configuring disk groups and volumes
- Installing and configuring the application or server role
- Configuring the service group
- About configuring file shares
- About configuring IIS sites
- About configuring applications using the Application Configuration Wizard
- Configuring a RVG service group for replication
- Configuring the resources in the RVG service group for RDC replication
- Configuring the VMDg or VMNSDg resources for the disk groups
- Configuring the RVG Primary resources
- Adding the nodes from the secondary zone to the RDC
- Verifying the RDC configuration
- Section VI. Disaster Recovery
- Disaster recovery: Overview
- Deploying disaster recovery: New application installation
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Reviewing the configuration
- About managing disk groups and volumes
- Setting up the secondary site: Configuring SFW HA and setting up a cluster
- Setting up your replication environment
- About configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
- Installing and configuring the application or server role (secondary site)
- Configuring replication and global clustering
- Configuring the global cluster option for wide-area failover
- Possible task after creating the DR environment: Adding a new failover node to a Volume Replicator environment
- Maintaining: Normal operations and recovery procedures (Volume Replicator environment)
- Testing fault readiness by running a fire drill
- About the Fire Drill Wizard
- Prerequisites for a fire drill
- Preparing the fire drill configuration
- Deleting the fire drill configuration
- Section VII. Microsoft Clustering Solutions
- Microsoft clustering solutions overview
- Deploying SFW with Microsoft failover clustering
- Tasks for installing InfoScale Foundation or InfoScale Storage for Microsoft failover clustering
- Creating SFW disk groups and volumes
- Implementing a dynamic quorum resource
- Deploying SFW with Microsoft failover clustering in a campus cluster
- Reviewing the configuration
- Establishing a Microsoft failover cluster
- Tasks for installing InfoScale Foundation or InfoScale Storage for Microsoft failover clustering
- Creating disk groups and volumes
- Implementing a dynamic quorum resource
- Installing the application on the cluster nodes
- Deploying SFW and VVR with Microsoft failover clustering
- Part 1: Setting up the cluster on the primary site
- Reviewing the prerequisites and the configuration
- Part 2: Setting up the cluster on the secondary site
- Part 3: Adding the Volume Replicator components for replication
- Part 4: Maintaining normal operations and recovery procedures
- Section VIII. Server Consolidation
- Server consolidation overview
- Server consolidation configurations
- Typical server consolidation configuration
- Server consolidation configuration 1 - many to one
- Server consolidation configuration 2 - many to two: Adding clustering and DMP
- About this configuration
- SFW features that support server consolidation
Creating disk groups and volumes
Use Storage Foundation to create disk groups and dynamic volumes on the cluster storage, which in a campus cluster consists of at least two storage arrays.
Before you create disk groups and volumes, consider the following items:
The type of volume configurations that are required
The number of LUNs required for the disk group
The implications of backup and restore operations on the disk group setup
The size of databases and logs which depend on the traffic load
The disk groups and number of disks on each site
Note:
For campus clusters, each disk group must contain an equal number of disks on each site.
Types of volumes required and location of the plex of each volume in the storage array
Note:
Each volume should be a mirrored volume with one plex of the volume on Site A's storage array and the other plex of the volume on Site B's storage array.
Create two or more dynamic cluster disk groups on the storage - one or more for the application data files and one for the mirrored quorum.
Refer to the following topics: