Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 7.4.2 HA and DR Solutions Guide for Microsoft SharePoint 2013 - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.2)
Platform: Windows

Configuring 64-bit Perl for SharePoint

Perl scripts are used to update DNS entries pertaining to the Network Load Balancer (NLB) name for the SharePoint DR solution. The scripts fail to execute when VERITAS Perl is used, because it is a 32-bit version of Perl.

By default, when a 32-bit process tries to access a 64-bit component in the C:\Windows\System32 directory, Windows File System Redirector redirects it to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory. When C:\Windows\System32\dnscmd.exe is used, Windows is unable to locate the 64-bit file, because dnscmd.exe is only installed in the System32 directory.

To configure 64-bit Perl

  1. Install a 64-bit version of Perl.
  2. Copy the ag_i18n_inc.pm file from %vcs_home%\VRTSPerl\lib to 64-bit_Perl_install_dir\lib.
  3. Make sure that you add the file path of 64-bit Perl to the process resource attribute in the SQL Server service group for configuring the web servers.

For further information about process resources,