InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions HA and DR Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault - Windows
- Introducing SFW HA for EV
- About clustering solutions with InfoScale products
- About high availability
- How a high availability solution works
- How VCS monitors storage components
- Shared storage - if you use NetApp filers
- Shared storage - if you use SFW to manage cluster dynamic disk groups
- Shared storage - if you use Windows LDM to manage shared disks
- Non-shared storage - if you use SFW to manage dynamic disk groups
- Non-shared storage - if you use Windows LDM to manage local disks
- Non-shared storage - if you use VMware storage
- About replication
- About disaster recovery
- What you can do with a disaster recovery solution
- Typical disaster recovery configuration
- Configuring high availability for Enterprise Vault with InfoScale Enterprise
- Reviewing the HA configuration
- Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
- High availability (HA) configuration (New Server)
- Following the HA workflow in the Solutions Configuration Center
- Disaster recovery configuration
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- Configuring cluster disk groups and volumes for Enterprise Vault
- About cluster disk groups and volumes
- Prerequisites for configuring cluster disk groups and volumes
- Considerations for a fast failover configuration
- Considerations for disks and volumes for campus clusters
- Considerations for volumes for a Volume Replicator configuration
- Sample disk group and volume configuration
- Viewing the available disk storage
- Creating a cluster disk group
- Creating Volumes
- About managing disk groups and volumes
- Importing a disk group and mounting a volume
- Unmounting a volume and deporting a disk group
- Adding drive letters to mount the volumes
- Deporting the cluster disk group
- Configuring the cluster
- Adding a node to an existing VCS cluster
- Verifying your primary site configuration
- Guidelines for installing InfoScale Enterprise and configuring the cluster on the secondary site
- Setting up your replication environment
- Setting up security for Volume Replicator
- Assigning user privileges (secure clusters only)
- Configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
- Cloning the storage on the secondary site using the DR wizard (Volume Replicator replication option)
- Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault on the secondary site
- Configuring Volume Replicator replication and global clustering
- Configuring global clustering only
- Setting service group dependencies for disaster recovery
- Verifying the disaster recovery configuration
- Adding multiple DR sites (optional)
- Recovery procedures for service group dependencies
- Using the Solutions Configuration Center
- About the Solutions Configuration Center
- Starting the Solutions Configuration Center
- Options in the Solutions Configuration Center
- About launching wizards from the Solutions Configuration Center
- Remote and local access to Solutions wizards
- Solutions wizards and logs
- Workflows in the Solutions Configuration Center
- Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault for failover
- Installing Enterprise Vault
- Configuring the Enterprise Vault service group
- Modifying the Enterprise Vault service group attribute
- Configuring Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment
- Setting service group dependencies for high availability
- Verifying the Enterprise Vault cluster configuration
- Setting up Enterprise Vault
- Considerations when modifying an EV service group
Setting up security for Volume Replicator
If you use Volume Replicator for replication, you must configure the Veritas Volume Replicator Security Service (VxSAS) on all the cluster nodes.
For details on this required service, see the Volume Replicator Administrator's Guide.
After you install InfoScale Storage or InfoScale Enterprise, launch the Veritas Volume Replicator Security Service Configuration Wizard. This wizard lets you complete the Volume Replicator security service configuration.
The wizard requires you to be logged on with administrative privileges.
The account that you specify must have administrative and log-on as service privileges on all the specified hosts.
Avoid specifying blank passwords. In a Windows Server environment, accounts with blank passwords are not supported for log-on service privileges.
The systems on which you want to configure VxSAS must be accessible from the local system.
To configure VxSAS
- Launch the VVR Security Service Configuration Wizard from the Apps menu on the Start screen.
Optionally, run vxsascfg.exe from the command prompt of the required machine.
- Read the information provided on the Welcome page and click Next.
- Complete the Account Information panel as follows:
Account name (domain\account)
Enter the administrative account name.
Password
Specify a password
If you have already configured VxSAS for one host that is intended to be a part of the RDS, make sure you specify the same username and password when configuring VxSAS on the other hosts.
Click Next.
- On the Domain Selection panel, select the domain to which the hosts that you want to configure belong:
Selecting domains
The Available domains pane lists all the domains that are present in the Windows network neighborhood.
Move the appropriate name from the Available domains list to the Selected domains list, either by double-clicking it or using the arrow button.
Adding a domain
If the domain name that you require is not displayed, click Add domain. This displays a dialog that lets you specify the domain name. Click Add to add the name to the Selected domains list.
Click Next.
- On the Host Selection panel, select the required hosts:
Selecting hosts
The Available hosts pane lists the hosts that are present in the specified domain.
Move the appropriate host from the Available hosts list to the Selected hosts list, either by double-clicking it or using the arrow button. Use the Shift key with the up or down arrow keys to select multiple hosts.
Adding a host
If the host name you require is not displayed, click Add host. In the Add Host dialog specify the required host name or IP in the Host Name field. Click Add to add the name to the Selected hosts list.
After you have selected a host name, the Configure button is enabled. Click Configure to proceed with configuring VxSAS.
- After the configuration completes, the Configuration Results page displays whether or not the operation was successful. If the operation was not successful, the page displays the details on why the account update failed, along with the possible reasons for failure and recommendations on getting over the failure.
When configuring VxSAS in a firewall setup, the VxSAS wizard may not be able to configure the machines that are across the firewall, although the Host Selection dialog may list these nodes. In this case, configure VxSAS locally on the machines that are across the firewall.
Click Back to change any information you had provided earlier.
- Click Finish to exit the wizard.