Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 7.3.1 HA and DR Solutions Guide for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.3.1)
  1. Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for SharePoint 2010
    1.  
      About clustering solutions with SFW HA
    2.  
      About high availability
    3.  
      How a high availability solution works
    4.  
      About replication
    5.  
      About disaster recovery
    6.  
      What you can do with a disaster recovery solution
    7.  
      Typical disaster recovery configuration
    8. About high availability support for SharePoint Server
      1.  
        About disaster recovery support for SharePoint Server
      2.  
        Before you begin configuring quick recovery for SharePoint Server 2010
      3.  
        About quick recovery support for SharePoint Server
    9.  
      About the SharePoint Search service application
  2. Introducing the VCS agent for SharePoint Server 2010
    1.  
      About the VCS agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
    2.  
      SharePoint Server agent functions
    3.  
      SharePoint Server agent state definitions
    4.  
      SharePoint Server agent resource type definition
    5.  
      SharePoint Server agent attribute definitions
  3. Configuration workflows for SharePoint Server 2010
    1. Reviewing the HA configuration
      1.  
        Sample SharePoint Server HA configuration
      2.  
        Following the HA workflow in the Solutions Configuration Center
    2.  
      Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
    3.  
      High availability (HA) configuration
    4.  
      Disaster recovery configuration
    5. Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
      1.  
        IPv6 support
    6.  
      Configuring the storage hardware and network
    7. Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
      1.  
        Configuring notification
      2.  
        Adding nodes to a cluster
  4. Using the Solutions Configuration Center
    1.  
      About the Solutions Configuration Center
    2.  
      Starting the Solutions Configuration Center
    3.  
      Options in the Solutions Configuration Center
    4.  
      About launching wizards from the Solutions Configuration Center
    5.  
      Remote and local access to Solutions wizards
    6.  
      Solutions wizards and logs
    7.  
      Workflows in the Solutions Configuration Center
  5. Installing and configuring SharePoint Server 2010 for high availability
    1.  
      About installing and configuring SharePoint
    2.  
      Configuring 64-bit Perl for SharePoint
    3. About configuring SharePoint service groups
      1.  
        Before you configure a SharePoint service group
      2.  
        Creating a SharePoint service group
      3.  
        About service groups for SharePoint Search
    4.  
      Verifying the SharePoint cluster configuration
    5.  
      Considerations when modifying a SharePoint service group
  6. Configuring disaster recovery for SharePoint Server 2010
    1.  
      Tasks for configuring disaster recovery for SharePoint Server
    2. Configuring the SQL Server service group for DR in the SharePoint environment
      1.  
        Updating the SQL Server IP address
      2. Updating the IP address for web requests
        1.  
          Requirements
        2.  
          Customizing the DNS update settings for the web servers
        3.  
          Configuring a resource for the web servers
    3. Configuring the secondary site for SharePoint disaster recovery
      1.  
        Installing InfoScale Enterprise and configuring the cluster on the secondary site
      2.  
        About installing the SharePoint servers on the secondary site
      3.  
        About configuring the SharePoint service groups on the secondary site
      4.  
        Verifying the service group configuration
  7. Introducing the VCS agent for SharePoint Search Service Application
    1. About the VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application
      1.  
        How the VCS agent makes SharePoint Search service application highly available
      2.  
        VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application - functions
      3.  
        VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application - state definitions
      4.  
        Resource type definition
      5.  
        Attribute definitions
      6.  
        Sample configuration file
    2. Configuring the SharePoint Search Service Application service group
      1.  
        Prerequisites for configuring a service group for a SharePoint Search service application
      2.  
        Installing and configuring SharePoint Server 2010
      3.  
        Changing the index location of the Crawl and Query components
      4.  
        Configuring a service group for a SharePoint Search service application manually
      5.  
        Configuring the service group for a Search service application using the wizard
      6. Verifying the application service group
        1.  
          Bringing the service group online
        2.  
          Taking the service group offline
        3.  
          Switching the service group
        4.  
          Disabling the service group
      7.  
        Configuring a Search service application for disaster recovery
    3. Administering the SharePoint Search Service Application service group
      1.  
        About administering the application service group
      2.  
        Modifying the application service group
      3.  
        Deleting the application service group
  8. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About troubleshooting VCS agents
    2. Troubleshooting issues with SharePoint Search service application components
      1.  
        Restoring the Crawl or Query component registry keys
    3. VCS logging
      1.  
        VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard (VCW) logs
    4. Agent error messages and descriptions
      1.  
        VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application
  9. Appendix A. Using Veritas AppProtect for vSphere
    1.  
      About Just In Time Availability
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Setting up a plan
    4.  
      Deleting a plan
    5.  
      Managing a plan
    6.  
      Viewing the history tab
    7.  
      Limitations of Just In Time Availability
    8.  
      Getting started with Just In Time Availability
    9.  
      Supported operating systems and configurations
    10.  
      Viewing the properties
    11.  
      Log files
    12.  
      Plan states
    13.  
      Troubleshooting Just In Time Availability

Setting up a plan

Plan is a template which involves a logical grouping of virtual machines so as to increase the availability of the application in the event of a planned failover and recovery of the application in the event of an unexpected application failure.

To set up a plan

  1. Launch Veritas AppProtect from the VMware vSphere Web Client > Home view > Veritas AppProtect icon.
  2. Click Configure Plan.

    The Plan Configuration wizard appears.

  3. Specify a unique Plan Name and Description, and then click Next.

    The wizard validates the system details to ensure that all prerequisites are met.

  4. Select the virtual machines that you want to include in the plan, review the host and operating system details, and then click Next.

    The Unplanned Recovery Settings page appears.

  5. On the Unplanned Recovery Settings page, you can configure the selected virtual machines for Unplanned Recovery as well.

    Deselect the Configure selected VMs for Unplanned Recovery as well check box, if you do not want to include the selected virtual machines for unplanned recovery.

    If you have selected the virtual machines for unplanned recovery, then set up the unplanned recovery policies as appropriate from the available options. You can set up policies to restart applications, restart virtual machines, restart virtual machine on target ESX, and restore a virtual machine on target ESX.

    If you have selected Restore VM on target ESX as the unplanned recovery policy, then you can set up a schedule to create a boot disk back up copy of the virtual machine within the configured plan. You can set the frequency as daily, weekly, monthly, or manual as per your requirement.

    After you have finished making necessary settings for Unplanned Recovery, Click Next.

  6. The wizard validates the prerequisite attributes of the virtual machine and the ESX host, and adds the qualified virtual machines to the plan.

    Click Next after the validation process completes.

  7. In the Disks tab, you can view the selected application data disks. Just In Time Availability solution uses the selected data disks to perform detach-attach operation during a planned failover and unplanned recovery.

    Note:

    If the disks are not auto-marked as selected to perform detach-attach operation, then first refresh the VIOM server and then the VCenter server in VIOM and then create a plan.

  8. In the Network Configuration tab, specify the network interface configuration details for the cloned virtual machine. Make sure to specify at least one public interface and valid IP details.
  9. In the Unplanned Recovery Target tab, specify the target ESX server to restore the virtual machine, and the target ESX port details.

    Note:

    The Unplanned Recovery Target tab is visible only when Restart VM on target ESX or Restore VM on target ESX is selected.

  10. In the Windows Settings tab, specify the domain name, Microsoft Windows product license key, domain user name, domain password, admin password, and time zone index.

    Note:

    The Windows Settings tab is visible only when a Windows virtual machine is selected in the plan.

  11. Click Next. The Summary wizard appears.
  12. In the Summary wizard, review the plan details such as the plan name, unplanned recovery policies, schedule, and so on.

    Deselect the Start backup process on finish checkbox if you do not want to initiate a backup process when the plan creation procedure is finished. This checkbox is selected by default.

    Click Create. The plan is created and saved.

  13. Click Finish to return to the plans tab and view the created plans.

See Managing a plan.

See Deleting a plan.