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

Last Published:
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

Configuring global clustering only

You have the option to use the DR wizard to configure global clustering (GCO) only.

Before configuring GCO:

  • One static IP address must be available per site for configuring GCO.

  • If you created secure clusters at the primary site and secondary site, ensure that you have configured a VCS user with the same name and privileges in each cluster, and the user must be added in the Administrator role.

The following procedure assumes that you have already configured the storage and installed and configured EV on the secondary site.

To configure GCO only

  1. Launch the wizard and proceed to the GCO Setup panel as follows:
  2. Launch the Solutions Configuration Center from the Apps menu on the Start screen. Expand the Solutions for Enterprise Vault tab and click Disaster Recovery Configuration > Configure replication and the global cluster option (GCO) > Disaster Recovery Configuration Wizard.
  3. In the Welcome panel, click Next and continue through the wizard, providing the requested information.
  4. In the Replication Methods panel, click Configure Global Cluster Option (GCO) only. Click Next and continue to the GCO Setup panel.
  5. In the GCO Setup panel, review the requirements. If you have met the requirements, click Next.
  6. In the Global Cluster Settings panel specify the heartbeat information for the wide-area connector resource. You must specify this information for the primary and the secondary cluster. Any existing WAC resource information can be reused. If you are adding a DR site to an existing DR configuration, GCO is already configured at the primary site, so the primary site fields are dimmed.

    Use existing settings

    Allows you to use a WAC resource that already exists at either the primary or secondary site. Click Primary or Secondary, depending on the site at which the WAC resource already exists.

    Resource Name

    Select the existing WAC resource name from the resource name list box.

    Create new settings

    Select the appropriate site, primary or secondary, for which you want to create a new WAC resource.

    IP Address

    Enter a virtual IP for the WAC resource.

    Subnet Mask

    Enter the subnet mask for the system at the primary site and the secondary site.

    Public NIC

    Select the public NIC for each system from the drop-down list for the system at the primary and secondary site.

    Start GCO after configuration

    Select this check box to bring the cluster service group online and start GCO automatically after the wizard completes the necessary configurations. Otherwise, you must bring the service group online and start GCO manually, after the wizard completes.

    Once GCO is configured and running, deselecting the checkbox does not stop GCO.

  7. In the Settings Summary panel, review the displayed information. Click Back if you want to change any of the parameters specified. Click Next.
  8. In the Implementation panel, wait until the wizard completes creating the replication configuration and the WAC resource required for global clustering, A check (4) symbol indicates successful completion of a task. An (x) symbol indicates a task that could not be completed successfully. The Information column shows details about the reasons for task failure. Click Next.
  9. In the Finish panel, review the displayed information. If a task did not complete successfully, the panel displays an error message, which will provide some insight into the cause for failure. Click Finish to exit the wizard.