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Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 7.4.1 HA and DR Solutions Guide for Microsoft Exchange 2010 - Windows
Last Published:
2019-02-01
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.1)
Platform: Windows
- Section I. Introduction and Concepts
- Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server
- 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 SFW HA support for Exchange Server 2010
- About campus clusters
- Differences between campus clusters and local clusters
- Sample campus cluster configuration
- What you can do with a campus cluster
- About replication
- About a replicated data cluster
- How VCS replicated data clusters work
- About disaster recovery
- What you can do with a disaster recovery solution
- Typical disaster recovery configuration
- Introducing the VCS agent for Exchange 2010
- About the VCS database agent for Microsoft Exchange 2010
- Exchange 2010 database agent functions
- Exchange 2010 database agent state definitions
- Exchange 2010 database agent resource type definition
- Exchange 2010 database agent attribute definitions
- Exchange 2010 service group resource dependency graph
- Exchange 2010 service group sample configuration
- Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server
- Section II. Configuration Workflows
- Configuring high availability for Exchange Server with InfoScale Enterprise
- Reviewing the HA configuration
- Reviewing a standalone Exchange Server configuration
- Reviewing the campus cluster configuration
- Reviewing the Replicated Data Cluster configuration
- Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
- Following the HA workflow in the Solutions Configuration Center
- VCS campus cluster configuration
- VCS Replicated Data Cluster configuration
- Disaster recovery configuration
- About installing the Veritas InfoScale products
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Campus cluster failover using the ForceImport attribute
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- Configuring disk groups and volumes for Exchange Server
- About cluster disk groups and volumes
- Prerequisites for configuring cluster disk groups and volumes
- Considerations for a fast failover configuration
- Considerations for converting existing shared storage to cluster disk groups and volumes
- Considerations when creating disks and volumes for campus clusters
- Considerations for volumes for a Volume Replicator configuration
- Sample disk group and volume configuration for Exchange 2010
- Viewing the available disk storage
- Creating a dynamic disk group
- Adding disks to campus cluster sites
- Creating volumes for high availability clusters
- Creating volumes for campus clusters
- About managing disk groups and volumes
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- 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
- Configuring high availability for Exchange Server with InfoScale Enterprise
- Section III. Deployment
- Installing Exchange Server 2010
- Configuring Exchange Server for failover
- Tasks for configuring a new server for high availability
- Tasks for configuring an existing server for high availability
- About configuring the Exchange 2010 service group
- Prerequisites for configuring the Exchange Server service group
- Creating the Exchange Server 2010 service group
- Configuring the service group in a non-shared storage environment
- Verifying the Exchange Server cluster configuration
- Determining additional steps needed
- Configuring campus clusters for Exchange Server
- Configuring Replicated Data Clusters for Exchange Server
- Tasks for configuring Replicated Data Clusters for Exchange Server
- Creating the primary system zone for the application service group
- Creating a parallel environment in the secondary zone
- Setting up security for Volume Replicator
- Setting up the Replicated Data Sets (RDS)
- Configuring a RVG service group for replication
- Creating the RVG service group
- Configuring the resources in the RVG service group for RDC replication
- Configuring the IP and NIC resources
- Configuring the VMDg or VMNSDg resources for the disk groups
- Modifying the DGGuid attribute for the new disk group resource in the RVG service group
- Adding the Volume Replicator RVG resources for the disk groups
- Linking the Volume Replicator RVG resources to establish dependencies
- Deleting the VMDg or VMNSDg resource from the Exchange Server service group
- Configuring the RVG Primary resources
- Configuring the primary system zone for the RVG service group
- Setting a dependency between the service groups
- Adding the nodes from the secondary zone to the RDC
- Adding the nodes from the secondary zone to the RVG service group
- Configuring secondary zone nodes in the RVG service group
- Configuring the RVG service group NIC resource for fail over (VMNSDg only)
- Configuring the RVG service group IP resource for failover
- Configuring the RVG service group VMNSDg resources for fail over
- Adding the nodes from the secondary zone to the Exchange Server service group
- Configuring the zones in the Exchange Server service group
- Configuring the application service group IP resource for fail over (VMNSDg only)
- Configuring the application service group NIC resource for fail over (VMNSDg only)
- Verifying the RDC configuration
- Additional instructions for GCO disaster recovery
- Deploying disaster recovery for Exchange Server
- Tasks for deploying a disaster recovery configuration of Microsoft Exchange
- Tasks for setting up DR in a non-shared storage environment
- Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
- Setting up the secondary site: Installing InfoScale Enterprise and configuring a cluster
- Verifying your primary site configuration
- Setting up your replication environment
- Assigning user privileges (secure clusters only)
- About configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
- Configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
- Cloning the storage on the secondary site using the DR wizard (Volume Replicator replication option)
- Creating temporary storage on the secondary site using the DR wizard (array-based replication)
- Installing Exchange 2010
- Cloning the service group configuration from the primary site to the secondary site
- Configuring the Exchange service group in a non-shared storage environment
- Configuring replication and global clustering
- Creating the replicated data sets (RDS) for Volume Replicator replication
- Creating the Volume Replicator RVG service group for replication
- Configuring the global cluster option for wide-area failover
- Verifying the disaster recovery configuration
- Establishing secure communication within the global cluster (optional)
- Adding multiple DR sites (optional)
- Recovery procedures for service group dependencies
- Possible task after creating the DR environment: Adding a new failover node to a Volume Replicator environment
- Testing fault readiness by running a fire drill
- About disaster recovery fire drills
- About the Fire Drill Wizard
- About post-fire drill scripts
- Tasks for configuring and running fire drills
- Prerequisites for a fire drill
- Preparing the fire drill configuration
- System Selection panel details
- Service Group Selection panel details
- Secondary System Selection panel details
- Disk Selection panel details
- Hitachi TrueCopy Path Information panel details
- HTCSnap Resource Configuration panel details
- SRDFSnap Resource Configuration panel details
- Fire Drill Preparation panel details
- Running a fire drill
- Re-creating a fire drill configuration that has changed
- Restoring the fire drill system to a prepared state
- Deleting the fire drill configuration
- Considerations for switching over fire drill service groups
- Section IV. Reference
- Appendix A. Using Veritas AppProtect for vSphere
- About Just In Time Availability
- Prerequisites
- Setting up a plan
- Deleting a plan
- Managing a plan
- Viewing the history tab
- Limitations of Just In Time Availability
- Getting started with Just In Time Availability
- Supported operating systems and configurations
- Viewing the properties
- Log files
- Plan states
- Troubleshooting Just In Time Availability
- Appendix B. Troubleshooting
- Appendix A. Using Veritas AppProtect for vSphere
Plan states
Based on the state of the plan, the operation icons are enabled and disabled on the Plans tab.
Table: List of plan and operation states
Plan state | Failover | Failback | Revert | Delete clone | Delete Plan | Unplanned Failback | Create Clone backup | Properties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ready For Failover | ✓ | - | - | ✓ Note: Enabled when the selected maintenance plan has an associate clone. | ✓ Note: Enabled when the selected maintenance plan does not have an associate clone. | - | ✓ | ✓ |
Failed Over | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Failover | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Failback | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Revert | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | - | - | ✓ |
Unknown | - | - | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ |
Failed To Delete Clone | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failover In Progress | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failback In Progress | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Revert In Progress | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Delete Clone In Progress | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Application Faulted | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Restart VM | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Move VM | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ |
Failed To Restore VM | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ |
Unplanned | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - |
Unplanned Restored VM | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ |
Unplanned Failed to Failback | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - |