InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Microsoft Clustering Solutions Guide for Microsoft SQL Server - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Windows
  1. Introducing SFW solutions for a Microsoft cluster
    1.  
      About Microsoft clustering solutions with SFW
    2.  
      Advantages of using SFW in a Microsoft cluster
    3.  
      About high availability clusters
    4.  
      About campus clusters
    5.  
      About disaster recovery clusters
  2. Planning for deploying SQL Server with SFW in a Microsoft cluster
    1.  
      InfoScale requirements for Microsoft clustering solutions
    2. Planning your SQL Server high availability configuration
      1.  
        Sample high availability configuration for SQL Server with SFW
      2.  
        Configuring the quorum device for high availability
    3. Planning your campus cluster configuration
      1.  
        Microsoft campus cluster failure scenarios
      2. Microsoft cluster quorum and quorum arbitration
        1.  
          Quorum
        2.  
          Cluster ownership of the quorum resource
        3.  
          The vxclus utility
    4. Planning your disaster recovery configuration
      1.  
        Sample disaster recovery configuration for SQL Server with SFW and Volume Replicator
  3. Workflows for deploying SQL Server with SFW in a Microsoft cluster
    1.  
      Workflow for a high availability (HA) configuration
    2. Workflow for a campus cluster configuration
      1.  
        Campus cluster: Connecting the two nodes
    3.  
      Workflow for a disaster recovery configuration
    4.  
      Using the Solutions Configuration Center workflow
    5.  
      Configuring the storage hardware and network
  4. Configuring SFW storage
    1.  
      Tasks for configuring InfoScale Storage
    2. Planning for SFW cluster disk groups and volumes
      1.  
        Sample SQL Server high-availability cluster storage configuration
      2.  
        Sample campus cluster storage configuration
      3.  
        Sample SQL Server disaster recovery storage configuration
    3.  
      Considerations when creating disk groups and volumes for a campus cluster
    4.  
      Considerations when creating volumes for a DR configuration using Volume Replicator replication
    5.  
      Viewing the available disk storage
    6.  
      Creating dynamic cluster disk groups
    7.  
      Adding disks to campus cluster sites
    8.  
      Creating dynamic volumes for high availability clusters
    9.  
      Creating dynamic volumes for campus clusters
  5. Implementing a dynamic mirrored quorum resource
    1.  
      Tasks for implementing a dynamic mirrored quorum resource
    2.  
      Creating a dynamic cluster disk group and a mirrored volume for the quorum resource
    3.  
      Adding a Volume Manager Disk Group resource for the quorum
    4.  
      Changing the quorum resource to a dynamic mirrored quorum resource
  6. Installing SQL Server and configuring resources
    1.  
      Tasks for installing and configuring SQL Server
    2.  
      Creating the resource group for the SQL Server instance
    3.  
      Prerequisites for installing SQL Server
    4.  
      Installing SQL Server in an InfoScale Storage environment
    5.  
      Dependency graph for SQL Server
    6.  
      Verifying the SQL Server group in the Microsoft cluster
  7. Configuring disaster recovery
    1.  
      Tasks for configuring the secondary site for disaster recovery for SQL Server
    2.  
      Verifying the primary site configuration
    3.  
      Creating a parallel environment for SQL Server on the secondary site
    4.  
      Volume Replicator components overview
    5.  
      Setting up security for Volume Replicator
    6.  
      Creating resources for Volume Replicator
    7. Configuring Volume Replicator: Setting up an RDS
      1.  
        Prerequisites for setting up the RDS
      2.  
        Creating a Replicated Data Set (RDS)
    8.  
      Creating the RVG resource
    9.  
      Setting the SQL server resource dependency on the RVG resource
    10. Normal Volume Replicator operations and recovery procedures
      1.  
        Monitoring the status of the replication
      2.  
        Performing planned migration
      3. Replication recovery procedures
        1.  
          Bringing up the application on the secondary host
        2.  
          Restoring the primary host
  8. Appendix A. Configure InfoScale Storage in an existing Microsoft Failover Cluster
    1.  
      Configuring InfoScale Storage in an existing Microsoft Failover Cluster

Tasks for configuring the secondary site for disaster recovery for SQL Server

After creating a high-availability Microsoft cluster with SFW and SQL Server on a primary site, you can configure a secondary site for disaster recovery.

This disaster recovery solution requires Volume Replicator.

Refer to the Volume Replicator Administrator's Guide for additional details.

The following table describes the process for configuring the secondary site for disaster recovery.

Table: Process for configuring the secondary site for disaster recovery

Action

Description

Verify the primary site configuration.

See Verifying the primary site configuration.

Review the prerequisites and planning information

Verify the prerequisites on the secondary site.

See InfoScale requirements for Microsoft clustering solutions.

Note:

If the DR site is on a different network segment, ensure that you allocate two IP addresses for the virtual server, one for the primary site and one for the DR site.

Understand the DR configuration.

See Planning your disaster recovery configuration.

Create the parallel configuration on the secondary site

Ensure that you follow the secondary site requirements and guidelines for IP addresses, disk groups and volumes, the SQL Server resource group, and SQL Server installation.

See Creating a parallel environment for SQL Server on the secondary site.

Understand the Volume Replicator components

See Volume Replicator components overview.

Set up security for Volume Replicator

Set up the security for Volume Replicator on all nodes on both the primary and secondary sites.

See Setting up security for Volume Replicator.

Create the cluster resources for Volume Replicator

  • Create an IP address for the Replicated Volume Group (RVG).

  • Create a Network Name resource for the Replicated Volume Group (RVG).

See Creating resources for Volume Replicator.

Set up an RDS

Create a replicated data set (RDS) using the Volume Replicator wizard.

See Configuring Volume Replicator: Setting up an RDS.

Create the RVG resource (primary and secondary sites)

Create the RVG resource on both primary and secondary sites.

See Creating the RVG resource.

Set up the SQL Server resource dependencies

Change the SQL Server resource dependency properties so that it depends on the RVG resource instead of the Volume Manager Disk Group resource.

See Setting the SQL server resource dependency on the RVG resource.