Storage Foundation and High Availability 8.0.1 Solutions Microsoft Clustering Solutions Guide for Microsoft SQL Server - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0.1)
Platform: Windows
  1. Introducing SFW solutions for a Microsoft cluster
    1.  
      About Microsoft clustering solutions with SFW
    2.  
      Advantages of using SFW in a Microsoft cluster
    3.  
      About high availability clusters
    4.  
      About campus clusters
    5.  
      About disaster recovery clusters
  2. Planning for deploying SQL Server with SFW in a Microsoft cluster
    1.  
      InfoScale requirements for Microsoft clustering solutions
    2. Planning your SQL Server high availability configuration
      1.  
        Sample high availability configuration for SQL Server with SFW
      2.  
        Configuring the quorum device for high availability
    3. Planning your campus cluster configuration
      1.  
        Microsoft campus cluster failure scenarios
      2. Microsoft cluster quorum and quorum arbitration
        1.  
          Quorum
        2.  
          Cluster ownership of the quorum resource
        3.  
          The vxclus utility
    4. Planning your disaster recovery configuration
      1.  
        Sample disaster recovery configuration for SQL Server with SFW and Volume Replicator
  3. Workflows for deploying SQL Server with SFW in a Microsoft cluster
    1.  
      Workflow for a high availability (HA) configuration
    2. Workflow for a campus cluster configuration
      1.  
        Campus cluster: Connecting the two nodes
    3.  
      Workflow for a disaster recovery configuration
    4.  
      Using the Solutions Configuration Center workflow
    5.  
      Configuring the storage hardware and network
  4. Configuring SFW storage
    1.  
      Tasks for configuring InfoScale Storage
    2. Planning for SFW cluster disk groups and volumes
      1.  
        Sample SQL Server high-availability cluster storage configuration
      2.  
        Sample campus cluster storage configuration
      3.  
        Sample SQL Server disaster recovery storage configuration
    3.  
      Considerations when creating disk groups and volumes for a campus cluster
    4.  
      Considerations when creating volumes for a DR configuration using Volume Replicator replication
    5.  
      Viewing the available disk storage
    6.  
      Creating dynamic cluster disk groups
    7.  
      Adding disks to campus cluster sites
    8.  
      Creating dynamic volumes for high availability clusters
    9.  
      Creating dynamic volumes for campus clusters
  5. Implementing a dynamic mirrored quorum resource
    1.  
      Tasks for implementing a dynamic mirrored quorum resource
    2.  
      Creating a dynamic cluster disk group and a mirrored volume for the quorum resource
    3.  
      Adding a Volume Manager Disk Group resource for the quorum
    4.  
      Changing the quorum resource to a dynamic mirrored quorum resource
  6. Installing SQL Server and configuring resources
    1.  
      Tasks for installing and configuring SQL Server
    2.  
      Creating the resource group for the SQL Server instance
    3.  
      Prerequisites for installing SQL Server
    4.  
      Installing SQL Server in an InfoScale Storage environment
    5.  
      Dependency graph for SQL Server
    6.  
      Verifying the SQL Server group in the Microsoft cluster
  7. Configuring disaster recovery
    1.  
      Tasks for configuring the secondary site for disaster recovery for SQL Server
    2.  
      Verifying the primary site configuration
    3.  
      Creating a parallel environment for SQL Server on the secondary site
    4.  
      Volume Replicator components overview
    5.  
      Setting up security for Volume Replicator
    6.  
      Creating resources for Volume Replicator
    7. Configuring Volume Replicator: Setting up an RDS
      1.  
        Prerequisites for setting up the RDS
      2.  
        Creating a Replicated Data Set (RDS)
    8.  
      Creating the RVG resource
    9.  
      Setting the SQL server resource dependency on the RVG resource
    10. Normal Volume Replicator operations and recovery procedures
      1.  
        Monitoring the status of the replication
      2.  
        Performing planned migration
      3. Replication recovery procedures
        1.  
          Bringing up the application on the secondary host
        2.  
          Restoring the primary host
  8. Appendix A. Configure InfoScale Storage in an existing Microsoft Failover Cluster
    1.  
      Configuring InfoScale Storage in an existing Microsoft Failover Cluster

Creating the RVG resource

To enable a disaster recovery setup, once Volume Replicator is configured you create the Replicated Volume Group (RVG) resource on the primary and secondary sites.

You add the RVG resource to the SQL Server resource group.

You configure the RVG resource to depend on the Volume Replicator IP resource and on the appropriate Volume Manager Disk Group resource.

Since an RVG cannot span disk groups, if you have more than one disk group configured for the application, create a separate RVG resource for each disk group.

To create a Replicated Volume Group (RVG) resource

  1. In Failover Cluster Management, expand Services and Applications, right-click the SQL Server virtual server group that you have created and select Add a resource > More resources > Add Replicated Volume Group.

    The New Replicated Volume Group appears in the center panel under Disk Drives.

  2. Right-click New Replicated Volume Group and click Properties.
  3. On the General tab of the Properties dialog box, in the Resource Name field, type a name for the RVG resource.
  4. On the Dependencies tab, add the dependencies for the RVG resource:

    • Click the box Click here to add a dependency

    • From the Resource drop-down list, select the network name you created for the RVG. Click Insert.

    • Click the box Click here to add a dependency

    • From the Resource drop-down list, select the Volume Manager Disk Group resource created for the application disk group. Click Insert.

  5. On the Properties tab, specify the following:

    • In the rvgName field, type the same name that you assigned the RVG on the General tab.

    • In the dgName field, type the name assigned in the VEA to the application disk group.

  6. Click OK to close the Properties dialog box.
  7. Right-click the RVG resource and click Bring this resource online.
  8. Repeat the same steps to create the RVG resource at the secondary site.