Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 7.3.1 HA and DR Solutions Guide for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.3.1)
  1. Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for SharePoint 2010
    1.  
      About clustering solutions with SFW HA
    2.  
      About high availability
    3.  
      How a high availability solution works
    4.  
      About replication
    5.  
      About disaster recovery
    6.  
      What you can do with a disaster recovery solution
    7.  
      Typical disaster recovery configuration
    8. About high availability support for SharePoint Server
      1.  
        About disaster recovery support for SharePoint Server
      2.  
        Before you begin configuring quick recovery for SharePoint Server 2010
      3.  
        About quick recovery support for SharePoint Server
    9.  
      About the SharePoint Search service application
  2. Introducing the VCS agent for SharePoint Server 2010
    1.  
      About the VCS agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
    2.  
      SharePoint Server agent functions
    3.  
      SharePoint Server agent state definitions
    4.  
      SharePoint Server agent resource type definition
    5.  
      SharePoint Server agent attribute definitions
  3. Configuration workflows for SharePoint Server 2010
    1. Reviewing the HA configuration
      1.  
        Sample SharePoint Server HA configuration
      2.  
        Following the HA workflow in the Solutions Configuration Center
    2.  
      Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
    3.  
      High availability (HA) configuration
    4.  
      Disaster recovery configuration
    5. Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
      1.  
        IPv6 support
    6.  
      Configuring the storage hardware and network
    7. Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
      1.  
        Configuring notification
      2.  
        Adding nodes to a cluster
  4. Using the Solutions Configuration Center
    1.  
      About the Solutions Configuration Center
    2.  
      Starting the Solutions Configuration Center
    3.  
      Options in the Solutions Configuration Center
    4.  
      About launching wizards from the Solutions Configuration Center
    5.  
      Remote and local access to Solutions wizards
    6.  
      Solutions wizards and logs
    7.  
      Workflows in the Solutions Configuration Center
  5. Installing and configuring SharePoint Server 2010 for high availability
    1.  
      About installing and configuring SharePoint
    2.  
      Configuring 64-bit Perl for SharePoint
    3. About configuring SharePoint service groups
      1.  
        Before you configure a SharePoint service group
      2.  
        Creating a SharePoint service group
      3.  
        About service groups for SharePoint Search
    4.  
      Verifying the SharePoint cluster configuration
    5.  
      Considerations when modifying a SharePoint service group
  6. Configuring disaster recovery for SharePoint Server 2010
    1.  
      Tasks for configuring disaster recovery for SharePoint Server
    2. Configuring the SQL Server service group for DR in the SharePoint environment
      1.  
        Updating the SQL Server IP address
      2. Updating the IP address for web requests
        1.  
          Requirements
        2.  
          Customizing the DNS update settings for the web servers
        3.  
          Configuring a resource for the web servers
    3. Configuring the secondary site for SharePoint disaster recovery
      1.  
        Installing InfoScale Enterprise and configuring the cluster on the secondary site
      2.  
        About installing the SharePoint servers on the secondary site
      3.  
        About configuring the SharePoint service groups on the secondary site
      4.  
        Verifying the service group configuration
  7. Introducing the VCS agent for SharePoint Search Service Application
    1. About the VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application
      1.  
        How the VCS agent makes SharePoint Search service application highly available
      2.  
        VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application - functions
      3.  
        VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application - state definitions
      4.  
        Resource type definition
      5.  
        Attribute definitions
      6.  
        Sample configuration file
    2. Configuring the SharePoint Search Service Application service group
      1.  
        Prerequisites for configuring a service group for a SharePoint Search service application
      2.  
        Installing and configuring SharePoint Server 2010
      3.  
        Changing the index location of the Crawl and Query components
      4.  
        Configuring a service group for a SharePoint Search service application manually
      5.  
        Configuring the service group for a Search service application using the wizard
      6. Verifying the application service group
        1.  
          Bringing the service group online
        2.  
          Taking the service group offline
        3.  
          Switching the service group
        4.  
          Disabling the service group
      7.  
        Configuring a Search service application for disaster recovery
    3. Administering the SharePoint Search Service Application service group
      1.  
        About administering the application service group
      2.  
        Modifying the application service group
      3.  
        Deleting the application service group
  8. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About troubleshooting VCS agents
    2. Troubleshooting issues with SharePoint Search service application components
      1.  
        Restoring the Crawl or Query component registry keys
    3. VCS logging
      1.  
        VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard (VCW) logs
    4. Agent error messages and descriptions
      1.  
        VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application
  9. Appendix A. Using Veritas AppProtect for vSphere
    1.  
      About Just In Time Availability
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Setting up a plan
    4.  
      Deleting a plan
    5.  
      Managing a plan
    6.  
      Viewing the history tab
    7.  
      Limitations of Just In Time Availability
    8.  
      Getting started with Just In Time Availability
    9.  
      Supported operating systems and configurations
    10.  
      Viewing the properties
    11.  
      Log files
    12.  
      Plan states
    13.  
      Troubleshooting Just In Time Availability

Managing a plan

Planned Maintenance

After the maintenance plan is created, you can fail over the applications to the clone virtual machine and fail back the applications from the clone to the virtual machine. When the scheduled maintenance is complete, you can delete the cloned virtual machine or retain it for future use.

To perform failover, failback, revert, or delete clone operations, go to Plans, and select a plan. Based on the enabled operation, perform the following tasks:

To fail over the applications to the cloned virtual machine

  • Click the Failover icon.

    Just In Time Availability (JIT) performs the sequence of failover tasks, which includes taking the application offline, detaching the disks, cloning the virtual machine, attaching the disks, and so on.

To fail back the applications from the clone to the primary virtual machine

  • Click the Failback icon.

    Just In Time Availability (JIT) performs the sequence of failback tasks, which includes taking the application offline, detaching the disks, attaching the disks, and so on.

To revert a failover or a failback operation

  • Click the Revert icon.

    If the failover or a failback operation fails, the revert operation restores the applications on the virtual machine, and deletes the clone if created.

To delete a clone

  • Click the Delete Clone icon.

    After the failback operation is complete, you can delete the clone. By default, the revert operation deletes the clone.

Note:

Alternatively, right-click Plan in the Plans table on the Plans wizard to perform failover, failback, revert, delete plan, and delete clone operations.

Unplanned Recovery

Once you have set up a plan for unplanned recovery during Configure Plan operation, based on the recovery policies selected for the plan, the application is recovered accordingly.

You can manage unplanned recovery policies settings by performing the following operations on the plan and its associated virtual machines.

Managing unplanned recovery settings

On the Plans tab, in the plans table which lists all the existing plans, navigate to the required plan and use the right-click option on the selected plan.

  • Edit: Use this option to modify the configured plans settings such as adding or removing a virtual machine from the plan, and so on.

    The same Configuration Plan wizard using which you had set up or configured a plan is displayed with pre-populated details.

    See Setting up a plan.

  • Disable Unplanned Recovery: Use this option to disable the Unplanned Recovery settings.

  • Enable Unplanned Recovery: Use this option to enable the Unplanned Recovery settings.

  • Disable Scheduler: Use this option to disable the scheduler settings.

  • Enable Scheduler: Use this option to enable the scheduler settings.

  • Delete Plan: Use this option to delete the created plan.

  • Properties: Use this option to view the properties for unplanned recovery. It displays details such as the selected unplanned recovery policies and the associated operations for the selected policies. It also provides information about the selected scheduler mode for performing boot disk back up operation for the selected virtual machines.

Managing virtual machines settings

On the Plans tab, in the plans table which lists all the existing plans and its associated virtual machines, navigate to the required virtual machine. Select the required virtual machine and use the right-click option on the selected virtual machine.

  • Remove VM From Plan: Use this option to delete the virtual machine from the selected plan.

  • Create Clone Backup: Use this option to create a boot disk backup copy of the virtual machine.

  • Unplanned Failback: Use this option to fail back the application from the boot disk backup copy of the virtual machine on target ESX to the original virtual machine on primary ESX.

    Note:

    This option is available only if you have set unplanned recovery policies as Restart VM on target ESX or Restore VM on target ESX.

  • Properties: Use this option to view properties such as the last run time for backup operation, last successful backup attempt time and the target ESX details.

See Plan states.