InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions HA and DR Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Windows
  1. Introducing SFW HA for EV
    1.  
      About clustering solutions with InfoScale products
    2.  
      About high availability
    3.  
      How a high availability solution works
    4. How VCS monitors storage components
      1.  
        Shared storage - if you use NetApp filers
      2.  
        Shared storage - if you use SFW to manage cluster dynamic disk groups
      3.  
        Shared storage - if you use Windows LDM to manage shared disks
      4.  
        Non-shared storage - if you use SFW to manage dynamic disk groups
      5.  
        Non-shared storage - if you use Windows LDM to manage local disks
      6.  
        Non-shared storage - if you use VMware storage
    5.  
      About replication
    6.  
      About disaster recovery
    7.  
      What you can do with a disaster recovery solution
    8.  
      Typical disaster recovery configuration
  2. Configuring high availability for Enterprise Vault with InfoScale Enterprise
    1. Reviewing the HA configuration
      1. Active-Passive configuration
        1.  
          Sample Active-Passive configuration
        2.  
          IP addresses for sample Active-Passive configuration
    2. Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
      1.  
        Sample disaster recovery configuration
      2.  
        IP addresses for disaster recovery configuration
      3.  
        Supported disaster recovery configurations for service group dependencies
    3.  
      High availability (HA) configuration (New Server)
    4.  
      Following the HA workflow in the Solutions Configuration Center
    5. Disaster recovery configuration
      1.  
        DR configuration tasks: Primary site
      2.  
        DR configuration tasks: Secondary site
    6. Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
      1.  
        IPv6 support
    7.  
      Configuring the storage hardware and network
    8. Configuring cluster disk groups and volumes for Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        About cluster disk groups and volumes
      2.  
        Prerequisites for configuring cluster disk groups and volumes
      3.  
        Considerations for a fast failover configuration
      4.  
        Considerations for disks and volumes for campus clusters
      5.  
        Considerations for volumes for a Volume Replicator configuration
      6.  
        Sample disk group and volume configuration
      7.  
        Viewing the available disk storage
      8.  
        Creating a cluster disk group
      9.  
        Creating Volumes
      10.  
        About managing disk groups and volumes
      11.  
        Importing a disk group and mounting a volume
      12.  
        Unmounting a volume and deporting a disk group
      13.  
        Adding drive letters to mount the volumes
      14.  
        Deporting the cluster disk group
    9.  
      Configuring the cluster
    10.  
      Adding a node to an existing VCS cluster
    11.  
      Verifying your primary site configuration
    12.  
      Guidelines for installing InfoScale Enterprise and configuring the cluster on the secondary site
    13.  
      Setting up your replication environment
    14.  
      Setting up security for Volume Replicator
    15.  
      Assigning user privileges (secure clusters only)
    16.  
      Configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
    17.  
      Cloning the storage on the secondary site using the DR wizard (Volume Replicator replication option)
    18.  
      Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault on the secondary site
    19.  
      Configuring Volume Replicator replication and global clustering
    20.  
      Configuring global clustering only
    21.  
      Setting service group dependencies for disaster recovery
    22.  
      Verifying the disaster recovery configuration
    23.  
      Adding multiple DR sites (optional)
    24.  
      Recovery procedures for service group dependencies
  3. 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
  4. Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault for failover
    1.  
      Installing Enterprise Vault
    2. Configuring the Enterprise Vault service group
      1.  
        Before you configure an EV service group
      2.  
        Creating an EV service group
      3.  
        Enabling fast failover for disk groups (optional)
    3.  
      Modifying the Enterprise Vault service group attribute
    4.  
      Configuring Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment
    5.  
      Setting service group dependencies for high availability
    6.  
      Verifying the Enterprise Vault cluster configuration
    7.  
      Setting up Enterprise Vault
    8.  
      Considerations when modifying an EV service group

High availability (HA) configuration (New Server)

The following table outlines the high-level objectives and the tasks to complete each objective for an Active-Passive configuration.

Note:

Arctera recommends as a best practice to configure SQL Server for high availability before configuring Enterprise Vault for high availability. Configuring SQL Server for high availability is covered in the SQL Server solutions guides.

Note:

Solutions wizards cannot be used to perform Disaster Recovery, Fire Drill, or Quick Recovery remotely on Windows Server Core systems.

The DR, FD, and QR wizards require that the .NET Framework is present on the system where these operations are to be performed. As the .NET Framework is not supported on the Windows Server Core systems, the wizards cannot be used to perform DR, FD, or QR on these systems.

Refer to the following Microsoft knowledge database article for more details:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd184075.aspx

Table: Enterprise Vault Server: Active-Passive configuration tasks

Action

Description

Review the HA configuration

  1. Understand active-passive configuration

  2. Review the sample configuration

See Reviewing the HA configuration.

Configure the storage hardware and network

  1. Set up the storage hardware for a cluster environment

  2. Verify the DNS entries for the systems on which Enterprise Vault Server will be installed

Review pre-requisites and install InfoScale Enterprise

  • Install InfoScale Enterprise on all the systems where you want to configure EV for high availability. Refer to Arctera InfoScale™ Installation and Upgrade Guide

Review application-specific requirements

See Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration.

Configure disk groups and volumes for Enterprise Vault Server

  1. Create a dynamic cluster disk group using the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA)

  2. Create dynamic volumes for the MSMQ data, registry replication data, and EV services data

See Configuring cluster disk groups and volumes for Enterprise Vault.

Configure VCS cluster

If the cluster has not already been configured for SQL Server:

  1. Verify static IP addresses and name resolution configured for each node

  2. Run the VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard (VCW) to configure cluster components and set up secure communication for the cluster

See Configuring the cluster.

Install Enterprise Vault on the cluster nodes

  • Ensure that the appropriate amount of local storage space is available on the node. This is required for storing temporary files during Enterprise Vault installation.

Refer to the Enterprise Vault documentation for installation instructions

Create an Enterprise Vault service group

  1. Ensure that you have met the prerequisites

  2. Ensure that the disk group and volumes for the various Enterprise Vault components are mounted on the first node

  3. Create a EV service group using the Enterprise Vault Cluster Setup Wizard

  4. Bring the EV service group online on the first node

See Configuring the Enterprise Vault service group.

Configure fast failover for disk groups (optional)

  1. Ensure that you have installed the Fast Failover option and met the prerequisites for storage

  2. Use the Java Console to enable the FastFailover attribute for VMDg resources

See Enabling fast failover for disk groups (optional).

Configure Enterprise Vault for the cluster environment on the first node

  1. Launch the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard on the first node

  2. Choose the option to create a new Enterprise Vault server with cluster support

  3. Complete running the wizard on the first node

See Configuring Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment.

Refer to the Enterprise Vault documentation for more information.

Configure Enterprise Vault for the cluster environment on any additional nodes

  1. Bring the EV service group online on the first node

  2. Launch the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard on the second node

  3. Choose the option to add the node as a failover node for an existing clustered server

  4. Complete running the wizard on the second node

  5. Repeat these steps for any additional nodes in the EV cluster

See Configuring Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment.

Refer to the Enterprise Vault documentation for more information.

Perform additional configuration steps for Enterprise Vault

See Setting up Enterprise Vault.

Refer to the Enterprise Vault documentation for more information.

(Optional) Configure the appropriate service group dependencies

Configure the appropriate service group dependencies.

See Verifying the Enterprise Vault cluster configuration.

Verify the HA configuration

Test failover between nodes.

See Verifying the Enterprise Vault cluster configuration.