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
Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault on the secondary site
Perform the following steps when installing and configuring Enterprise Vault for the cluster on the secondary site.
Be sure to read these instructions before running the Enterprise Vault Cluster Setup wizard and the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard on the secondary site.
To install and configure Enterprise Vault on the secondary site:
- Install Enterprise Vault on each node of the secondary site cluster. For installation and configuration instructions, see the Enterprise Vault documentation.
- Before you launch the wizard to configure the EV service group, storage cloning must be complete. Verify that the cluster disk group is imported to the first node on the secondary site and the volumes are mounted. If volumes were mounted as drive paths (folder mount) on the primary site, the DR Wizard does not mount the volumes on the secondary site and you must format the volumes and mount them manually.
- Bring the EV service group offline on the primary site.
- On the first node, launch the Enterprise Vault Cluster Setup Wizard to configure the EV service group.
Launch the Solutions Configuration Center from the Apps menu on the Start screen. Expand the Solutions for Enterprise Vault tab and click Disaster Recovery Configuration > Configure the Enterprise Vault service group on the secondary site > Enterprise Vault Cluster Setup Wizard.
Specify the same service group name and virtual server name on the secondary site as on the primary site.
For example, if the service group name on the primary site is EV_SG, use EV_SG for the service group name on the secondary site. If the virtual server name on the primary site is EV-VS, use EV-VS for the virtual server name on the secondary site.
Specify the same MSMQ and Replication Directory paths on the secondary site as on the primary site.
Use the same procedure as when configuring the service group on the primary site. Be sure to choose the wizard option to bring the service group online after creating it.
- Use the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard to configure Enterprise Vault on each node on the secondary site, beginning with the node on which the service group is online (the first node).
Launch the Solutions Configuration Wizard. Expand the Solutions for Enterprise Vault tab and click Disaster Recovery Configuration > Configure Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment > Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard.
Follow these guidelines on the first node on the secondary site:
On the first node, select the option to create a new Enterprise Vault Server with cluster support, rather than the option to add the node as a failover node for an existing clustered server.
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, specify the same database that you selected on the primary site. 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.
The wizard detects the existing database and updates it.
When you finish running the wizard, bring the Enterprise Vault resources online and verify that the Enterprise Vault service group is online. The EV resources will be in an unknown state on the failover node because the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard has not yet been run on that node.
For additional information on the wizard, see the Enterprise Vault documentation.
- 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.
- Once configuration is complete, verify the configuration on the secondary site by switching the service group from the first node to the failover node on the secondary site.
- Take the service group offline on the secondary site and bring it online on the primary site.