Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 7.3.1 HA and DR Solutions Guide for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.3.1)
  1. Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for SharePoint 2010
    1.  
      About clustering solutions with SFW HA
    2.  
      About high availability
    3.  
      How a high availability solution works
    4.  
      About replication
    5.  
      About disaster recovery
    6.  
      What you can do with a disaster recovery solution
    7.  
      Typical disaster recovery configuration
    8. About high availability support for SharePoint Server
      1.  
        About disaster recovery support for SharePoint Server
      2.  
        Before you begin configuring quick recovery for SharePoint Server 2010
      3.  
        About quick recovery support for SharePoint Server
    9.  
      About the SharePoint Search service application
  2. Introducing the VCS agent for SharePoint Server 2010
    1.  
      About the VCS agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
    2.  
      SharePoint Server agent functions
    3.  
      SharePoint Server agent state definitions
    4.  
      SharePoint Server agent resource type definition
    5.  
      SharePoint Server agent attribute definitions
  3. Configuration workflows for SharePoint Server 2010
    1. Reviewing the HA configuration
      1.  
        Sample SharePoint Server HA configuration
      2.  
        Following the HA workflow in the Solutions Configuration Center
    2.  
      Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
    3.  
      High availability (HA) configuration
    4.  
      Disaster recovery configuration
    5. Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
      1.  
        IPv6 support
    6.  
      Configuring the storage hardware and network
    7. Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
      1.  
        Configuring notification
      2.  
        Adding nodes to a cluster
  4. 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
  5. Installing and configuring SharePoint Server 2010 for high availability
    1.  
      About installing and configuring SharePoint
    2.  
      Configuring 64-bit Perl for SharePoint
    3. About configuring SharePoint service groups
      1.  
        Before you configure a SharePoint service group
      2.  
        Creating a SharePoint service group
      3.  
        About service groups for SharePoint Search
    4.  
      Verifying the SharePoint cluster configuration
    5.  
      Considerations when modifying a SharePoint service group
  6. Configuring disaster recovery for SharePoint Server 2010
    1.  
      Tasks for configuring disaster recovery for SharePoint Server
    2. Configuring the SQL Server service group for DR in the SharePoint environment
      1.  
        Updating the SQL Server IP address
      2. Updating the IP address for web requests
        1.  
          Requirements
        2.  
          Customizing the DNS update settings for the web servers
        3.  
          Configuring a resource for the web servers
    3. Configuring the secondary site for SharePoint disaster recovery
      1.  
        Installing InfoScale Enterprise and configuring the cluster on the secondary site
      2.  
        About installing the SharePoint servers on the secondary site
      3.  
        About configuring the SharePoint service groups on the secondary site
      4.  
        Verifying the service group configuration
  7. Introducing the VCS agent for SharePoint Search Service Application
    1. About the VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application
      1.  
        How the VCS agent makes SharePoint Search service application highly available
      2.  
        VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application - functions
      3.  
        VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application - state definitions
      4.  
        Resource type definition
      5.  
        Attribute definitions
      6.  
        Sample configuration file
    2. Configuring the SharePoint Search Service Application service group
      1.  
        Prerequisites for configuring a service group for a SharePoint Search service application
      2.  
        Installing and configuring SharePoint Server 2010
      3.  
        Changing the index location of the Crawl and Query components
      4.  
        Configuring a service group for a SharePoint Search service application manually
      5.  
        Configuring the service group for a Search service application using the wizard
      6. Verifying the application service group
        1.  
          Bringing the service group online
        2.  
          Taking the service group offline
        3.  
          Switching the service group
        4.  
          Disabling the service group
      7.  
        Configuring a Search service application for disaster recovery
    3. Administering the SharePoint Search Service Application service group
      1.  
        About administering the application service group
      2.  
        Modifying the application service group
      3.  
        Deleting the application service group
  8. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About troubleshooting VCS agents
    2. Troubleshooting issues with SharePoint Search service application components
      1.  
        Restoring the Crawl or Query component registry keys
    3. VCS logging
      1.  
        VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard (VCW) logs
    4. Agent error messages and descriptions
      1.  
        VCS agent for SharePoint Search service application
  9. Appendix A. Using Veritas AppProtect for vSphere
    1.  
      About Just In Time Availability
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Setting up a plan
    4.  
      Deleting a plan
    5.  
      Managing a plan
    6.  
      Viewing the history tab
    7.  
      Limitations of Just In Time Availability
    8.  
      Getting started with Just In Time Availability
    9.  
      Supported operating systems and configurations
    10.  
      Viewing the properties
    11.  
      Log files
    12.  
      Plan states
    13.  
      Troubleshooting Just In Time Availability

SharePoint Server agent attribute definitions

Review the tables of required and optional attributes to familiarize yourself with the agent attributes for a SharePointServer resource type. This information will assist you during the agent configuration.

Table: SharePoint Server agent required attributes

Required Attributes

Definition

AppType

Defines whether the agent is configured to monitor a SharePoint Web Application, Service Application, or service.

This attribute can take one of the following values:

  • WebApp

  • ServiceApp

  • SPSService

The default value is WebApp.

If this attribute value is set to WebApp or ServiceApp, then you must specify a value for the AppName attribute.

If this attribute value is set to SPSService, the AppName attribute value is ignored.

Type and Dimension: string-scalar

AppPoolMon

Defines the monitoring modes for the application pool associated with the Web site being monitored.

Configure this attribute only if AppType attribute value is set to WebApp and IIS is configured to run in the Worker Process Isolation mode.

The attribute can take one of the following values:

  • NONE: Indicates that the agent does not monitor the application pool associated with the Web site.

  • DEFAULT: Indicates that the agent monitors the root application pool associated with the Web site. If this attribute is set, the agent starts, stops, and monitors the root application pool associated with the Web site. If the root application pool is stopped externally, the service group faults; the agent then attempts to restart the root application pool.

  • ALL: Indicates that the agent starts all the application pools associated with the Web site, but monitors and stops the root application pool only. If any application pool is stopped externally, the service group faults; the agent then attempts to restart the application pool.

The default value is NONE.

Type and Dimension: string-scalar

ServiceIDList

Defines the service IDs of the SharePoint services that are managed by the agent. This attribute is always local.

This attribute can take the following values:

  • If AppType attribute value is set to WebApp, specify the service ID of the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application service.

  • If AppType attribute value is set to ServiceApp, specify the service ID of the service on which the Service Application depends.

  • If AppType attribute value is set to SPSService, specify the service IDs of the SharePoint services.

Note:

If you are configuring this attribute manually, use the VCS hadiscover command or the SharePoint server cmdlets to retrieve the service IDs.

Type and Dimension: string-vector

Table: SharePoint Server agent optional attributes

Optional Attribute

Definition

AppName

The name of the SharePoint Web Application or Service Application that is managed by the agent. The value of this attribute depends on the value of the AppType attribute.

This attribute can take the following values:

  • If AppType attribute value is set as WebApp, specify the Web Application name.

  • If AppType attribute value is set as ServiceApp, specify the application pool ID for the SharePoint Service Application.

Note:

This attribute is ignored if AppType attribute value is set as SPSService.

Type and Dimension: string-scalar

FarmAdminAccount

A user account that has the SharePoint Server Farm Admin privileges.

User name can be of the form

username@domain.com, domain\username, or

domain.com\username.

The agent uses the Farm Admin user account context to manage the services specified in the ServiceIDList attribute value.

Type and Dimension: string-scalar

FarmAdminPassword

The password of the user specified in the FarmAdminAccount attribute value.

The password is stored in the VCS configuration in an encrypted form.

Type and Dimension: string-scalar

StopSPSService

When a resource in the VCS cluster is taken offline:

  • If the value of this attribute is set to true, the agent stops all the SharePoint services in its ServiceIDList.

  • If the value of this attribute is set to false, the agent does not change the state of the SharePoint services in its ServiceIDList, but it stops monitoring the services.

The default value of this attribute is false.

Type and Dimension: boolean