InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Solutions Guide - Windows
- Section I. Introduction
- Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions
- Using the Solutions Configuration Center
- SFW best practices for storage
- Section II. Quick Recovery
- Section III. High Availability
- High availability: Overview
- How VCS monitors storage components
- Deploying InfoScale Enterprise for high availability: New installation
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Configuring disk groups and volumes
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- About modifying the cluster configuration
- About installing and configuring the application or server role
- Configuring the service group
- About configuring file shares
- About configuring IIS sites
- About configuring applications using the Application Configuration Wizard
- About configuring the Oracle service group using the wizard
- Modifying the application service groups
- Adding DMP to a clustering configuration
- High availability: Overview
- Section IV. Campus Clustering
- Introduction to campus clustering
- Deploying InfoScale Enterprise for campus cluster
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Reviewing the configuration
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- Creating disk groups and volumes
- Installing the application on cluster nodes
- Section V. Replicated Data Clusters
- Introduction to Replicated Data Clusters
- Deploying Replicated Data Clusters: New application installation
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- Configuring disk groups and volumes
- Installing and configuring the application or server role
- Configuring the service group
- About configuring file shares
- About configuring IIS sites
- About configuring applications using the Application Configuration Wizard
- 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
- Section VI. Disaster Recovery
- Disaster recovery: Overview
- Deploying disaster recovery: New application installation
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Reviewing the configuration
- About managing disk groups and volumes
- Setting up the secondary site: Configuring SFW HA and setting up a cluster
- Setting up your replication environment
- About configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
- Installing and configuring the application or server role (secondary site)
- Configuring replication and global clustering
- Configuring the global cluster option for wide-area failover
- Possible task after creating the DR environment: Adding a new failover node to a Volume Replicator environment
- Maintaining: Normal operations and recovery procedures (Volume Replicator environment)
- 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
- Section VII. Microsoft Clustering Solutions
- Microsoft clustering solutions overview
- Deploying SFW with Microsoft failover clustering
- Tasks for installing InfoScale Foundation or InfoScale Storage for Microsoft failover clustering
- Creating SFW disk groups and volumes
- Implementing a dynamic quorum resource
- Deploying SFW with Microsoft failover clustering in a campus cluster
- Reviewing the configuration
- Establishing a Microsoft failover cluster
- Tasks for installing InfoScale Foundation or InfoScale Storage for Microsoft failover clustering
- Creating disk groups and volumes
- Implementing a dynamic quorum resource
- Installing the application on the cluster nodes
- Deploying SFW and VVR with Microsoft failover clustering
- Part 1: Setting up the cluster on the primary site
- Reviewing the prerequisites and the configuration
- Part 2: Setting up the cluster on the secondary site
- Part 3: Adding the Volume Replicator components for replication
- Part 4: Maintaining normal operations and recovery procedures
- Section VIII. Server Consolidation
- Server consolidation overview
- Server consolidation configurations
- Typical server consolidation configuration
- Server consolidation configuration 1 - many to one
- Server consolidation configuration 2 - many to two: Adding clustering and DMP
- About this configuration
- SFW features that support server consolidation
Configuring the Replicator Log volumes for Volume Replicator
Note:
Before configuring the Replicator Log volumes, make sure that all the resources in the failover cluster application group are offline, except the disk group resource. This task must be done on the primary site as well as the secondary site.
Create the volume for the Replicator Log at each site. The task of creating the logs can also be done during the RDS creation process, but some storage administrators may prefer to do it manually (as is being done here) as a preparatory step to setting up the RDS.
Note:
To improve write performance, Arctera recommends that you create the Replicator Log volume on a different disk from the disks used for your application data volumes.
To configure the Replicator Log volumes for Volume Replicator
- On the active node of the primary site, open Veritas Enterprise Administrator from the Apps menu on the Start screen.
- Create a volume for the disk group that contains the storage group data:
On the System configuration tree, click the disk group where the log volume will be created (hostName > Disk Groups > diskGroupName).
Right-click on a disk group that has the volumes to be replicated, and click New Volume.
- On the Welcome page of the New Volume wizard, click Next.
- Select the disks for the volume:
Select the group name.
Select Manually select disks.
Click the disk name.
Click Add.
After selecting all the necessary disks, click Next.
- Specify the parameters of the volume:
Enter the volume name.
Enter the size. The size of the Replicator Log volume varies for different environments. To determine the appropriate size for your environment, refer to the Volume Replicator Administrator's Guide.
Select the volume layout.
Select the appropriate mirror options.
Click Next.
- On the Add Drive Letter and Paths dialog box:
Click Do not assign a drive letter.
Click Next.
- When prompted to format the volume:
Deselect Format this volume.
Click Next.
- Click Finish to create the new volume.
- If necessary, repeat step 2 through step 8 to create Replicator Log volumes for any additional RVGs on the primary site.
- Repeat step 2 through step 8 to create Replicator Log volumes for additional disk groups on the secondary site.