Veritas Access Appliance 8.2 Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault

Last Published:
Product(s): Appliances (8.2)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350,Veritas 3360
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About this document
    2.  
      About Access Appliance as archival storage for Enterprise Vault
    3.  
      Access Appliance versions certified by Enterprise Vault
  2. System Requirements
    1.  
      Server roles
    2.  
      Hardware requirements
    3.  
      Software requirements
  3. Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault with Access Appliance
    1.  
      Enterprise Vault deployment
    2.  
      Access Appliance deployment
  4. Access Appliance features for Enterprise Vault archival storage
    1.  
      Write-Once-Read-Many support
    2.  
      Partition Secure Notification
  5. Access Appliance archival policy configuration for Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      Configuring CIFS for the Active Directory domain mode
    2.  
      Access Appliance GUI policies for archival storage
    3.  
      Configuring the replication job
    4.  
      Activating the archival policy using GUI
    5.  
      Configuration of CIFS shares for archival using Veritas Access CLISH
    6.  
      Storage provisioning using policies
    7.  
      Configuring Access Appliance storage with Enterprise Vault store partition
    8. Episodic replication job failover and failback
      1.  
        Process summary
      2.  
        Overview of the planned failover process
      3.  
        Overview of the planned failback process
      4.  
        Overview of the unplanned failover process
      5.  
        Overview of the unplanned failback process
    9. Continuous replication failover and failback
      1.  
        Process summary
      2.  
        Overview of the planned failover process
      3.  
        Overview of the planned failback process
      4.  
        Overview of the unplanned failover process
      5.  
        Overview of the unplanned failback process
    10.  
      Configuring replication failover and exporting CIFS share from target cluster
  6. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Log locations for troubleshooting
    2.  
      Additional resources
  7.  
    Index

Configuration of CIFS shares for archival using Veritas Access CLISH

Ensure that all the prerequisites are completed such as:

  • Access appliance should be in enterprise or compliance mode.

  • CIFS service should have been started.

  • AD settings, configuration of storage pool and setting up the replication links should be complete.

To set up the archival folder for Enterprise Vault

  1. Create a file system with a supported layout using the following command:
    Storage> fs create striped testfs 10G 5 testpool stripeunit=128 
blksize=1024 pdir_enable=no encrypt=off worm=yes

    Note:

    To use WORM capabilities, make sure that you turn on the WORM flag during file system creation. You can also enable WORM flag for an already created file system using the storage fs worm set minret maxret command.

  2. Create a CIFS share by adding a directory inside the file system, with share options as rw, full_acl, and allow domain user.
    CIFS> share add testfs/testfs testfs 
allow=accessra.local\evuser,noguest,rw,full_acl

    Where the testfs/testfs is the CIFS share.

  3. Go to the bash prompt by elevating to root. Create an empty directory inside the share, which is used as a root folder for archival data by Enterprise Vault.
    cd /vx/testfs/testfs
mkdir -m 0777 ev_archival

    Note:

    After the empty folder creation, full permission should be given to Enterprise Vault user for archival from Windows client (Enterprise Vault server). You can access the share from the Windows client (Enterprise Vault server) and configure partition.

In order to access the CIFS share from the Windows client, the following entries are required:

For DNS server:

  • Add SPN entry for all the server IPs on AD server. SPNs are used by Kerberos authentication to associate a service instance with a service logon account.

For non-DNS server:

  • Add FQDN entry for the virtual IP addresses using the Access CLISH using the network host add ipaddr fqdn command.

  • Add FQDN entry in the /etc/hosts file for all the virtual IP addresses on the Windows client.

  • Add SPN entry for all the virtual IP addresses on the Windows client.

The Veritas Access policies provide quick and easy configuration of archival storage for Enterprise Vault. You have an option to configure WORM or Non-WORM policies with or without replication.

See Access Appliance GUI policies for archival storage.

If you want to configure your archival policy with replication, perform the following steps.

To set up the episodic replication of archived files to target site

  1. Create a replication unit for the root folder that was created for episodic replication.
    Replication> episodic repunit create source_rep1 
testfs/testfs/ev_archival
  2. Create a replication schedule.
    Replication> episodic schedule create schedule1 */15
  3. Create a replication job and enable the job.
    Replication> episodic job create <job_name> <src_repunit> <tgt_repunit> 
<link_names> <schedule_name> [evpsn] [metadata] [ev_partition_path]

To set up the continuous replication of archived files to target site

  1. Enable continuous replication for the file system created.
    Replication> continuous enable fs1 pool_default src_link 
delayed=yes vvr_rvg create_target_fs=yes vxdefault evpsn=yes /ev_archival
  2. Start the replication.
    Replication> continuous start fs1