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
Configuring Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment
The Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard provides options for setting up Enterprise Vault in a cluster. You must run the wizard on each node of the cluster.
Before running the wizard, do the following:
Ensure that the Enterprise Vault service group is configured and online on the first node where you run the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard.
Ensure that Enterprise Vault is installed on all additional nodes where you run the wizard.
To configure Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment
- Launch the Solutions Configuration Center from the Apps menu on the Start screen. Expand the Solutions for Enterprise Vault tab and click High Availability (HA) Configuration (New Server) > Configure the Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment > Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard.
- Use the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard to configure Enterprise Vault on the first node. Follow these guidelines for configuring in the EV cluster environment:
When configuring EV on the first node, select the option to create a new Enterprise Vault Server with cluster support.
Select the Enterprise Vault service group that you just created as the group in which to configure the resources for the Enterprise Vault services.
When prompted to enter the SQL Server that you want to use for the Enterprise Vault database, if SQL Server has been configured for high availability and disaster recovery, enter the name in the format virtualservername\instancename. For example, if the SQL virtual server name is virtualsvr and the instance name is EVSQL, enter virtualsvr\EVSQL
For the computer alias, use the virtual server name that was specified when creating the Enterprise Vault service group.
When you finish running the wizard on the first node, bring the Enterprise Vault resources online and verify that the Enterprise Vault service group is online.
- To configure Enterprise Vault on any additional node, keep the service group online on the first node. Launch the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard from the additional node. On the additional node, make sure that you select the option to add the node as a failover node for an existing clustered server.
Refer to the EV documentation for more information on the wizard.