Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 8.0.1 HA and DR Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault - Windows
- Introducing SFW HA for EV
- 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 replication
- About disaster recovery
- What you can do with a disaster recovery solution
- Typical disaster recovery configuration
- Configuring high availability for Enterprise Vault with InfoScale Enterprise
- Reviewing the HA configuration
- Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
- High availability (HA) configuration (New Server)
- Following the HA workflow in the Solutions Configuration Center
- Disaster recovery configuration
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- Configuring cluster disk groups and volumes for Enterprise Vault
- About cluster disk groups and volumes
- Prerequisites for configuring cluster disk groups and volumes
- Considerations for a fast failover configuration
- Considerations for disks and volumes for campus clusters
- Considerations for volumes for a Volume Replicator configuration
- Sample disk group and volume configuration
- Viewing the available disk storage
- Creating a cluster disk group
- Creating Volumes
- About managing disk groups and volumes
- Importing a disk group and mounting a volume
- Unmounting a volume and deporting a disk group
- Adding drive letters to mount the volumes
- Deporting the cluster disk group
- Configuring the cluster
- Adding a node to an existing VCS cluster
- Verifying your primary site configuration
- Guidelines for installing InfoScale Enterprise and configuring the cluster on the secondary site
- Setting up your replication environment
- Setting up security for Volume Replicator
- Assigning user privileges (secure clusters only)
- Configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
- Cloning the storage on the secondary site using the DR wizard (Volume Replicator replication option)
- Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault on the secondary site
- Configuring Volume Replicator replication and global clustering
- Configuring global clustering only
- Setting service group dependencies for disaster recovery
- Verifying the disaster recovery configuration
- Adding multiple DR sites (optional)
- Recovery procedures for service group dependencies
- 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
- Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault for failover
- Installing Enterprise Vault
- Configuring the Enterprise Vault service group
- Configuring Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment
- Setting service group dependencies for high availability
- Verifying the Enterprise Vault cluster configuration
- Setting up Enterprise Vault
- Considerations when modifying an EV service group
About cluster disk groups and volumes
SFW uses disk groups to organize disks or LUNs for management purposes. A dynamic disk group is a collection of disks that is imported or deported as a single unit. A cluster disk group is a special type of dynamic disk group that is created on shared storage and is designed to be moved or to failover between hosts. In order to prevent data corruption a cluster disk group uses SCSI reservations to protect the shared disks and limits access to a single host at a time.
Volumes are logical entities that are comprised of portions of one or more physical disks and are accessed by a drive letter or mount point. Volumes can be configured for performance and high availability.
Note:
You create a cluster disk group and volumes on only one node of a cluster. The volumes can be accessed by other nodes in a high-availability cluster by first deporting the cluster disk group from the current node and then importing it on the desired node. In a campus cluster, the volumes are mirrored across the storage arrays.
Note:
If your storage devices are SCSI-3 compliant, and you wish to use SCSI-3 Persistent Group Reservations (PGR), you must enable SCSI-3 support using the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA - Control Panel - System Settings). See the Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide for more information.