Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 8.0.2 HA and DR Solutions Guide for Microsoft SQL Server - Windows
- Section I. Getting started with Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for SQL Server
- Introducing SFW HA and the VCS agents for SQL Server
- How is application availability achieved in a VMware virtual environment
- Notes and recommendations
- How VCS monitors storage components
- Deployment scenarios for SQL Server
- Reviewing the active-passive HA configuration
- Reviewing a standalone SQL Server configuration
- Reviewing the campus cluster configuration
- Reviewing the Replicated Data Cluster configuration
- About setting up a Replicated Data Cluster configuration
- Disaster recovery configuration
- Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Configuring disk groups and volumes for SQL Server
- About managing disk groups and volumes
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- Installing SQL Server
- Completing configuration steps in SQL Server
- Introducing SFW HA and the VCS agents for SQL Server
- Section II. Configuring SQL Server in a physical environment
- Configuring SQL Server for failover
- About configuring the SQL Server service group
- Configuring the service group in a non-shared storage environment
- Configuring an MSDTC Server service group
- Configuring campus clusters for SQL Server
- Configuring Replicated Data Clusters for SQL Server
- Setting up the Replicated Data Sets (RDS)
- 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
- Configuring disaster recovery for SQL Server
- Setting up your replication environment
- About configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
- Configuring replication and global clustering
- Configuring the global cluster option for wide-area failover
- 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
- Configuring SQL Server for failover
Configuring the resources in the RVG service group for RDC replication
Configure the RVG service group's resources manually for RVG by completing the following tasks:
Copy IP and NIC resources of the SQL Server service group (INST1_SG), paste and modify them for the RVG service group (INST1_RVG_SG).
Copy the VMDg (in case of shared storage) or VMNSDg (in case of non-shared storage) resources for the disk groups in the SQL Server service group (INST1_SG), paste and modify them for the RVG service group (INST1_RVG_SG).
See Configuring the VMDg or VMNSDg resources for the disk groups.
See Configuring the VMDg or VMNSDg resources for the disk group for the user-defined database.
Create the Volume Replicator RVG resources for the disk groups and enter the attributes for each of the disk groups and the replication IP address.
See Adding the Volume Replicator RVG resources for the disk groups.
Link the Volume Replicator RVG resources to establish the dependencies between the VMDg or VMNSDg resources, the IP resource for replication, and the Volume Replicator RVG resources for the disk groups. Configure the RVG service group's VMDg or VMNSDg resources to point to the disk groups that contain the RVGs.
See Linking the Volume Replicator RVG resources to establish dependencies.
Delete the VMDg or VMNSDg resources from the SQL Server service group, because they depend on the replication and were configured in the RVG service group.
See Deleting the VMDg or VMNSDg resource from the SQL Server service group.