Veritas Access Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Introducing Access Appliance
- Section II. Configuring Access Appliance
- Managing users
- Configuring the network
- Configuring authentication services
- Configuring user authentication using digital certificates or smart cards
- Section III. Managing Access Appliance storage
- Configuring storage
- Managing disks
- Access Appliance as an iSCSI target
- Configuring storage
- Section IV. Managing Access Appliance file access services
- Configuring the NFS server
- Setting up Kerberos authentication for NFS clients
- Using Access Appliance as a CIFS server
- About configuring CIFS for Active Directory (AD) domain mode
- About setting trusted domains
- About managing home directories
- About CIFS clustering modes
- About migrating CIFS shares and home directories
- About managing local users and groups
- Using Access Appliance as an Object Store server
- Configuring the NFS server
- Section V. Managing Access Appliance security
- Section VI. Monitoring and troubleshooting
- Configuring event notifications and audit logs
- About alert management
- Appliance log files
- Configuring event notifications and audit logs
- Section VII. Provisioning and managing Access Appliance file systems
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- Considerations for creating a file system
- About managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings
- Modifying a file system
- Managing a file system
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- Section VIII. Provisioning and managing Access Appliance shares
- Creating shares for applications
- Creating and maintaining NFS shares
- About the NFS shares
- Creating and maintaining CIFS shares
- About the CIFS shares
- About managing CIFS shares for Enterprise Vault
- Integrating Access Appliance with Data Insight
- Section IX. Managing Access Appliance storage services
- Configuring episodic replication
- Episodic replication job failover and failback
- Configuring continuous replication
- How Access Appliance continuous replication works
- Continuous replication failover and failback
- Using snapshots
- Using instant rollbacks
- Configuring episodic replication
- Section X. Reference
Starting Access Appliance continuous replication
This section lists the specific commands that are needed to run Access Appliance continuous replication on your clusters.
Ensure the following before starting replication:
Before you set up your clusters for continuous replication, you must first identify which is the source cluster and which is the destination cluster. All of the commands are performed on the source cluster first.
Make sure both the source cluster and the destination cluster have the same version of Access Appliance.
To use Access Appliance continuous replication, you have to first create an online file system on the Access Appliance source cluster.
Assign a virtual IP (VIP) address to both the source and the destination clusters. The Access Appliance continuous replication service requires VIP addresses not already in use for the two clusters to communicate.
The name resolution for replication virtual IPs for both source and target site should get resolved correctly. If there is no DNS entry for replication virtual IPs, add appropriate entry in the
/etc/hosts/
file on both nodes of the source and destination clusters.
To start Access Appliance continuous replication on the source cluster
- To bind a virtual IP address for the continuous replication service on the source cluster, enter the following:
Replication> continuous config bind ip_addr [device] [netmask]
ip_addr
Virtual IP address for the continuous replication service on the source cluster. It should not be part of the network IP pool.
device
The public network interface name that you want the replication IP address to use.
netmask
Netmask for the replication IP address.
- To start the continuous replication service, enter the following on the source node:
Replication> continuous service start [nodename]
nodename
The name of the node in the local cluster where you want to start the replication service.
- To check the status of the continuous replication service, enter the following:
Replication> continuous service status
- To confirm that the IP address is up and running, enter the following:
Replication> continuous config show ip
Note:
Alternately, you can use the Network> ip addr show command to confirm that the IP address is up and running.
To start Access Appliance continuous replication on the destination cluster
- To bind a virtual IP address for the replication service on the destination cluster, enter the following:
Replication> continuous config bind ip_addr [device] [netmask]
ip_addr
Virtual IP address for the continuous replication service on the destination cluster. It should not be part of the network IP pool.
device
The public network interface name that you want the replication IP address to use.
netmask
Netmask for the replication IP address.
- To start the continuous replication service, enter the following on the destination node:
Replication> continuous service start [nodename]
nodename
The name of the node in the local cluster where you want to start the replication service.
- To check the status of the continuous replication service, enter the following:
Replication> continuous service status
- To confirm that the IP address is up and running, enter the following:
Replication> continuous config show ip
You next need to set up communication between the source and the destination clusters.