Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 7.4.1 Solutions Guide - Windows
- Section I. Introduction- Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions
- 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
 
- SFW best practices for storage
 
- Section II. Quick Recovery
- Section III. High Availability- High availability: Overview- About high availability
- About clusters
- 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
 
 
- Deploying InfoScale Enterprise for high availability: New installation- About the high availability solution
- Tasks for a new high availability (HA) installation - additional applications
- Reviewing the InfoScale installation requirements
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Reviewing the configuration
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- About installing the Veritas InfoScale products
- Configuring disk groups and volumes
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- About modifying the cluster configuration
- About installing and configuring the application or server role
- Configuring the service group- About configuring file shares
- About configuring IIS sites
- About configuring applications using the Application Configuration Wizard
- About configuring the Oracle service group using the wizard
- Enabling fast failover for disk groups (optional)
 
- Configuring the service group in a non-shared storage environment
- Verifying the cluster configuration
- Possible tasks after completing the configuration
- Adding nodes to a cluster
- Modifying the application service groups
 
- Adding DMP to a clustering configuration
 
- High availability: Overview
- Section IV. Campus Clustering- Introduction to campus clustering
- Deploying InfoScale Enterprise for campus cluster- About the Campus Cluster solution
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Reviewing the configuration
- Installing and configuring the hardware
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- About installing the Veritas InfoScale products
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- Creating disk groups and volumes- About cluster disk groups and volumes
- Example disk group and volume configuration in campus cluster
- Considerations when creating disks and volumes for campus clusters
- Viewing the available disk storage
- Creating a dynamic disk group
- Adding disks to campus cluster sites
- Creating volumes for campus clusters
 
- Installing the application on cluster nodes
- Configuring service groups
- Verifying the cluster configuration
 
 
- Section V. Replicated Data Clusters- Introduction to Replicated Data Clusters
- Deploying Replicated Data Clusters: New application installation- Tasks for a new replicated data cluster installation - additional applications
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Sample configuration
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- About installing the Veritas InfoScale products
- Setting up security for Volume Replicator
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- Configuring disk groups and volumes
- Installing and configuring the application or server role
- Configuring the service group- About configuring file shares
- About configuring IIS sites
- About configuring applications using the Application Configuration Wizard
 
- Creating the primary system zone for the application service group
- Verifying the cluster configuration
- Creating a parallel environment in the secondary zone
- Adding nodes to a cluster
- Creating the Replicated Data Sets with the wizard
- Configuring a RVG service group for replication- Creating the RVG service group
- Configuring the resources in the RVG service group for RDC replication- Configuring the IP and NIC resources
- Configuring the VMDg or VMNSDg resources for the disk groups
- Adding the Volume Replicator RVG resources for the disk groups
- Linking the Volume Replicator RVG resources to establish dependencies
- Deleting the VMDg or VMNSDg resource from the application service group
 
- Configuring the RVG Primary resources
- Configuring the primary system zone for the RVG service group
 
- Setting a dependency between the service groups
- Adding the nodes from the secondary zone to the RDC- Adding the nodes from the secondary zone to the RVG service group
- Configuring secondary zone nodes in the RVG service group
- Configuring the RVG service group NIC resource for fail over (VMNSDg only)
- Configuring the RVG service group IP resource for failover
- Configuring the RVG service group VMNSDg resources for fail over
- Adding the nodes from the secondary zone to the application service group
- Configuring the zones in the application service group
- Configuring the application service group IP resource for fail over (VMNSDg only)
- Configuring the application service group NIC resource for fail over (VMNSDg only)
 
- Verifying the RDC configuration
- Additional instructions for GCO disaster recovery
 
 
- Section VI. Disaster Recovery- Disaster recovery: Overview
- Deploying disaster recovery: New application installation- Tasks for a new disaster recovery installation - additional applications
- Tasks for setting up DR in a non-shared storage environment
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Reviewing the configuration
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- About managing disk groups and volumes
- Setting up the secondary site: Configuring SFW HA and setting up a cluster
- Verifying that your application or server role is configured for HA at the primary site
- Setting up your replication environment
- Assigning user privileges (secure clusters only)
- About configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
- Cloning the storage on the secondary site using the DR wizard (Volume Replicator replication option)
- Creating temporary storage on the secondary site using the DR wizard (array-based replication)
- Installing and configuring the application or server role (secondary site)
- Cloning the service group configuration from the primary site to the secondary site
- Configuring the application service group in a non-shared storage environment
- Configuring replication and global clustering
- Creating the replicated data sets (RDS) for Volume Replicator replication
- Creating the Volume Replicator RVG service group for replication
- Configuring the global cluster option for wide-area failover
- Verifying the disaster recovery configuration
- Establishing secure communication within the global cluster (optional)
- Adding multiple DR sites (optional)
- Possible task after creating the DR environment: Adding a new failover node to a Volume Replicator environment
- Maintaining: Normal operations and recovery procedures (Volume Replicator environment)
- Recovery procedures for service group dependencies
 
- Testing fault readiness by running a fire drill- About disaster recovery fire drills
- About the Fire Drill Wizard
- About post-fire drill scripts
- Tasks for configuring and running fire drills
- Prerequisites for a fire drill
- Preparing the fire drill configuration- System Selection panel details
- Service Group Selection panel details
- Secondary System Selection panel details
- Fire Drill Service Group Settings panel details
- Disk Selection panel details
- Hitachi TrueCopy Path Information panel details
- HTCSnap Resource Configuration panel details
- SRDFSnap Resource Configuration panel details
- Fire Drill Preparation panel details
 
- Running a fire drill
- Re-creating a fire drill configuration that has changed
- Restoring the fire drill system to a prepared state
- Deleting the fire drill configuration
- Considerations for switching over fire drill service groups
 
 
- Section VII. Microsoft Clustering Solutions- Microsoft clustering solutions overview
- Deploying SFW with Microsoft failover clustering- Tasks for deploying InfoScale Storage with Microsoft failover clustering
- Reviewing the configuration
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- Establishing a Microsoft failover cluster
- Tasks for installing InfoScale Foundation or InfoScale Storage for Microsoft failover clustering
- Creating SFW disk groups and volumes
- Creating a group for the application in the failover cluster
- Installing the application on cluster nodes
- Completing the setup of the application group in the failover cluster
- Implementing a dynamic quorum resource
- Verifying the cluster configuration
- Configuring InfoScale Storage in an existing Microsoft Failover Cluster
 
- Deploying SFW with Microsoft failover clustering in a campus cluster- Tasks for deploying InfoScale Storage with Microsoft failover clustering in a campus cluster
- Reviewing the configuration
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- Establishing a Microsoft failover cluster
- Tasks for installing InfoScale Foundation or InfoScale Storage for Microsoft failover clustering
- Creating disk groups and volumes
- Implementing a dynamic quorum resource
- Setting up a group for the application in the failover cluster
- Installing the application on the cluster nodes
- Completing the setup of the application group in the cluster
- Verifying the cluster configuration
 
- Deploying SFW and VVR with Microsoft failover clustering- Tasks for deploying InfoScale Storage and Volume Replicator with Microsoft failover clustering
- Part 1: Setting up the cluster on the primary site- Reviewing the prerequisites and the configuration
- Installing and configuring the hardware
- Installing Windows and configuring network settings
- Establishing a Microsoft failover cluster
- Installing InfoScale Storage (primary site)
- Setting up security for Volume Replicator
- Creating SFW disk groups and volumes
- Completing the primary site configuration
 
- Part 2: Setting up the cluster on the secondary site
- Part 3: Adding the Volume Replicator components for replication
- Part 4: Maintaining normal operations and recovery procedures
 
 
- Section VIII. Server Consolidation- Server consolidation overview
- Server consolidation configurations- Typical server consolidation configuration
- Server consolidation configuration 1 - many to one
- Server consolidation configuration 2 - many to two: Adding clustering and DMP- About this configuration
- Adding the new hardware
- Establishing the Microsoft failover cluster
- Adding SFW support to the cluster
- Setting up Microsoft failover cluster groups for the applications
- Installing applications on the second computer
- Completing the setup of the application group in the Microsoft cluster
- Changing the quorum resource to the dynamic quorum resource
- Verifying the cluster configuration
- Enabling DMP
 
- SFW features that support server consolidation
 
 
- Appendix A. Using Veritas AppProtect for vSphere- About Just In Time Availability
- Prerequisites
- Setting up a plan
- Deleting a plan
- Managing a plan
- Viewing the history tab
- Limitations of Just In Time Availability
- Getting started with Just In Time Availability
- Supported operating systems and configurations
- Viewing the properties
- Log files
- Plan states
- Troubleshooting Just In Time Availability
 
Remote and local access to Solutions wizards
The Solutions Configuration Center and some wizards can be run from a remote system. Wizards that you can run remotely include the following:
| Disaster Recovery Configuration Wizard | Configures wide area disaster recovery, including cloning storage, cloning service groups, and configuring the global cluster Can also configure: 
 Note: Requires first configuring high availability on the primary site. To configure IPv6 settings, launch the wizard from a system on which the IPv6 stack is installed. | 
| Fire Drill Wizard | Sets up a fire drill to test disaster recovery Note: Requires first configuring high availability on the primary site. To configure IPv6 settings, launch the wizard from a system on which the IPv6 stack is installed. | 
| Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard | Schedules preparation of snapshot mirrors and schedules the Quick Recovery snapshots | 
| VCS Configuration Wizard | Sets up the VCS cluster | 
| Volume Replicator Security Service Configuration Wizard | Configures the Volume Replicator security service | 
Wizards related to storage configuration and application installation must be run locally on the system where the process is occurring. Wizards that you must run locally include the following:
| New Dynamic Disk Group Wizard | Launched from the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console | 
| New Volume Wizard | Launched from the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console | 
| MSMQ Configuration Wizard | Configures a Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service group | 
| SFW Configuration Utility for Hyper-V Live Migration Support | Configures SFW for Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration support on the selected systems | 
The Additional Applications section of the Configuration Center provides wizards to be run locally for creating service groups for the following applications or server roles:
| File Share Configuration Wizard | Configures file shares for high availability | 
| IIS Configuration Wizard | Configures IIS for high availability | 
| Oracle Agent Configuration Wizard | Configures Oracle for high availability | 
| Application Configuration Wizard | Configures any other application service group for which application-specific wizards have not been provided |