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Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 8.0.1 HA and DR Solutions Guide for Microsoft SQL Server - Windows
Last Published:
2022-05-19
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0.1)
Platform: Windows
- Section I. Getting started with Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for SQL Server
- Introducing SFW HA and the VCS agents for SQL Server
- About the Veritas InfoScale solutions for monitoring SQL Server
- How application availability is achieved in a physical environment
- How is application availability achieved in a VMware virtual environment
- Managing storage using VMware virtual disks
- 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
- What must be protected in an SQL Server environment
- About the VCS agents for SQL Server
- About the VCS agent for SQL Server Database Engine
- About the VCS agent for SQL Server FILESTREAM
- About the VCS GenericService agent for SQL Server Agent service and Analysis service
- About the agent for MSDTC service
- About the monitoring options
- Typical SQL Server configuration in a VCS cluster
- Typical SQL Server disaster recovery configuration
- SQL Server sample dependency graph
- MSDTC sample dependency graph
- Deployment scenarios for SQL Server
- Workflows in the Solutions Configuration Center
- Reviewing the active-passive HA configuration
- Reviewing the prerequisites for a standalone SQL Server
- Reviewing a standalone SQL Server configuration
- Reviewing the MSDTC configuration
- VCS campus cluster configuration
- Reviewing the campus cluster configuration
- VCS Replicated Data Cluster configuration
- Reviewing the Replicated Data Cluster configuration
- About setting up a Replicated Data Cluster configuration
- Disaster recovery configuration
- Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- Configuring disk groups and volumes for SQL Server
- About disk groups and volumes
- Prerequisites for configuring disk groups and volumes
- Considerations for a fast failover configuration
- Considerations for converting existing shared storage to cluster disk groups and volumes
- Considerations when creating disks and volumes for campus clusters
- Considerations for volumes for a Volume Replicator configuration
- Considerations for disk groups and volumes for multiple instances
- Sample disk group and volume configuration
- MSDTC sample disk group and volume configuration
- Viewing the available disk storage
- Creating a dynamic disk group
- Adding disks to campus cluster sites
- Creating volumes for high availability clusters
- Creating volumes for campus clusters
- About managing disk groups and volumes
- Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
- Installing SQL Server
- About installing and configuring SQL Server
- About installing multiple SQL Server instances
- Verifying that the SQL Server databases and logs are moved to shared storage
- About installing SQL Server for high availability configuration
- About installing SQL Server on the first system
- About installing SQL Server on additional systems
- Creating a SQL Server user-defined database
- Completing configuration steps in SQL Server
- Introducing SFW HA and the VCS agents for SQL Server
- Section II. Configuring SQL Server in a physical environment
- Configuring SQL Server for failover
- Tasks for configuring a new server for high availability
- Tasks for configuring an existing server for high availability
- About configuring the SQL Server service group
- Configuring the service group in a non-shared storage environment
- Verifying the SQL Server cluster configuration
- About the modifications required for tagged VLAN or teamed network
- Tasks for configuring MSDTC for high availability
- Configuring an MSDTC Server service group
- About configuring the MSDTC client for SQL Server
- About the VCS Application Manager utility
- Viewing DTC transaction information
- Modifying a SQL Server service group to add VMDg and MountV resources
- Determining additional steps needed
- Configuring campus clusters for SQL Server
- Configuring Replicated Data Clusters for SQL Server
- Tasks for configuring Replicated Data Clusters
- Creating the primary system zone for the application service group
- Creating a parallel environment in the secondary zone
- Setting up security for Volume Replicator
- Setting up the Replicated Data Sets (RDS)
- 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
- Modifying the DGGuid attribute for the new disk group resource in the RVG service group
- Configuring the VMDg or VMNSDg resources for the disk group for the user-defined database
- 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 SQL Server 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 nodes from the secondary zone to the SQL Server service group
- Configuring the zones in the SQL Server 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
- Configuring disaster recovery for SQL Server
- Tasks for configuring disaster recovery for SQL Server
- Tasks for setting up DR in a non-shared storage environment
- Guidelines for installing Veritas InfoScale Enterprise and configuring the cluster on the secondary site
- Verifying your primary site configuration
- 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 SQL Server on the secondary site
- Cloning the service group configuration from the primary site to the secondary site
- Configuring the SQL Server 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
- Adding multiple DR sites (optional)
- Recovery procedures for service group dependencies
- Configuring DR manually without the DR wizard
- 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
- Configuring SQL Server for failover
- Section III. Configuring SQL Server in a VMware environment
- Configuring application monitoring using the Veritas High Availability solution
- Administering application monitoring
- About the various interfaces available for performing application monitoring tasks
- Administering application monitoring using the Veritas High Availability tab
- Understanding the Veritas High Availability tab work area
- To view the status of configured applications
- To configure or unconfigure application monitoring
- To start or stop applications
- To suspend or resume application monitoring
- To switch an application to another system
- To add or remove a failover system
- To clear Fault state
- To resolve a held-up operation
- To determine application state
- To remove all monitoring configurations
- To remove VCS cluster configurations
- Administering application monitoring settings
- Administering application availability using Veritas High Availability dashboard
- Understanding the dashboard work area
- Accessing the dashboard
- Monitoring applications across a data center
- Monitoring applications across an ESX cluster
- Searching for application instances by using filters
- Selecting multiple applications for batch operations
- Starting an application using the dashboard
- Stopping an application by using the dashboard
- Entering an application into maintenance mode
- Bringing an application out of maintenance mode
- Switching an application
- Appendix A. Using Veritas AppProtect for vSphere
Plan states
Based on the state of the plan, the operation icons are enabled and disabled on the Plans tab.
Table: List of plan and operation states
Plan state | Failover | Failback | Revert | Delete clone | Delete Plan | Unplanned Failback | Create Clone backup | Properties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ready For Failover | ✓ | - | - | ✓ Note: Enabled when the selected maintenance plan has an associate clone. | ✓ Note: Enabled when the selected maintenance plan does not have an associate clone. | - | ✓ | ✓ |
Failed Over | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Failover | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Failback | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Revert | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | - | - | ✓ |
Unknown | - | - | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ |
Failed To Delete Clone | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failover In Progress | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failback In Progress | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Revert In Progress | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Delete Clone In Progress | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Application Faulted | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Restart VM | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Failed To Move VM | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ |
Failed To Restore VM | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ |
Unplanned | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - |
Unplanned Restored VM | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ |
Unplanned Failed to Failback | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - |