Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 7.4 HA and DR Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault - Windows
- Introducing SFW HA for EV
- About clustering solutions with InfoScale products
- About high availability
- How a high availability solution works
- 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
- About replication
- About disaster recovery
- What you can do with a disaster recovery solution
- Typical disaster recovery configuration
- Configuring high availability for Enterprise Vault with InfoScale Enterprise
- Reviewing the HA configuration
- Reviewing the disaster recovery configuration
- High availability (HA) configuration (New Server)
- Following the HA workflow in the Solutions Configuration Center
- Disaster recovery configuration
- Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
- Configuring the storage hardware and network
- Configuring cluster disk groups and volumes for Enterprise Vault
- About cluster disk groups and volumes
- Prerequisites for configuring cluster disk groups and volumes
- Considerations for a fast failover configuration
- Considerations for disks and volumes for campus clusters
- Considerations for volumes for a Volume Replicator configuration
- Sample disk group and volume configuration
- Viewing the available disk storage
- Creating a cluster disk group
- Creating Volumes
- About managing disk groups and volumes
- Importing a disk group and mounting a volume
- Unmounting a volume and deporting a disk group
- Adding drive letters to mount the volumes
- Deporting the cluster disk group
- Configuring the cluster
- Adding a node to an existing VCS cluster
- Verifying your primary site configuration
- Guidelines for installing InfoScale Enterprise and configuring the cluster on the secondary site
- Setting up your replication environment
- Setting up security for Volume Replicator
- Assigning user privileges (secure clusters only)
- Configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
- Cloning the storage on the secondary site using the DR wizard (Volume Replicator replication option)
- Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault on the secondary site
- Configuring Volume Replicator replication and global clustering
- Configuring global clustering only
- Setting service group dependencies for disaster recovery
- Verifying the disaster recovery configuration
- Establishing secure communication within the global cluster (optional)
- Adding multiple DR sites (optional)
- Recovery procedures for service group dependencies
- Using the Solutions Configuration Center
- About the Solutions Configuration Center
- Starting the Solutions Configuration Center
- Options in the Solutions Configuration Center
- About launching wizards from the Solutions Configuration Center
- Remote and local access to Solutions wizards
- Solutions wizards and logs
- Workflows in the Solutions Configuration Center
- Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault for failover
- Installing Enterprise Vault
- Configuring the Enterprise Vault service group
- Configuring Enterprise Vault Server in a cluster environment
- Setting service group dependencies for high availability
- Verifying the Enterprise Vault cluster configuration
- Setting up Enterprise Vault
- Considerations when modifying an EV service group
- Appendix A. Using Veritas AppProtect for vSphere
- About Just In Time Availability
- Prerequisites
- Setting up a plan
- Deleting a plan
- Managing a plan
- Viewing the history tab
- Limitations of Just In Time Availability
- Getting started with Just In Time Availability
- Supported operating systems and configurations
- Viewing the properties
- Log files
- Plan states
- Troubleshooting Just In Time Availability
Managing a plan
After the maintenance plan is created, you can fail over the applications to the clone virtual machine and fail back the applications from the clone to the virtual machine. When the scheduled maintenance is complete, you can delete the cloned virtual machine or retain it for future use.
To perform failover, failback, revert, or delete clone operations, go to Plans, and select a plan. Based on the enabled operation, perform the following tasks:
To fail over the applications to the cloned virtual machine
- Click the Failover icon.
Just In Time Availability (JIT) performs the sequence of failover tasks, which includes taking the application offline, detaching the disks, cloning the virtual machine, attaching the disks, and so on.
To fail back the applications from the clone to the primary virtual machine
- Click the Failback icon.
Just In Time Availability (JIT) performs the sequence of failback tasks, which includes taking the application offline, detaching the disks, attaching the disks, and so on.
To revert a failover or a failback operation
- Click the Revert icon.
If the failover or a failback operation fails, the revert operation restores the applications on the virtual machine, and deletes the clone if created.
To delete a clone
- Click the Delete Clone icon.
After the failback operation is complete, you can delete the clone. By default, the revert operation deletes the clone.
Note:
Alternatively, right-click in the Plans table on the Plans wizard to perform failover, failback, revert, delete plan, and delete clone operations.
Once you have set up a plan for unplanned recovery during Configure Plan operation, based on the recovery policies selected for the plan, the application is recovered accordingly.
You can manage unplanned recovery policies settings by performing the following operations on the plan and its associated virtual machines.
On the Plans tab, in the plans table which lists all the existing plans, navigate to the required plan and use the right-click option on the selected plan.
Edit: Use this option to modify the configured plans settings such as adding or removing a virtual machine from the plan, and so on.
The same Configuration Plan wizard using which you had set up or configured a plan is displayed with pre-populated details.
See Setting up a plan.
Disable Unplanned Recovery: Use this option to disable the Unplanned Recovery settings.
Enable Unplanned Recovery: Use this option to enable the Unplanned Recovery settings.
Disable Scheduler: Use this option to disable the scheduler settings.
Enable Scheduler: Use this option to enable the scheduler settings.
Delete Plan: Use this option to delete the created plan.
Properties: Use this option to view the properties for unplanned recovery. It displays details such as the selected unplanned recovery policies and the associated operations for the selected policies. It also provides information about the selected scheduler mode for performing boot disk back up operation for the selected virtual machines.
On the Plans tab, in the plans table which lists all the existing plans and its associated virtual machines, navigate to the required virtual machine. Select the required virtual machine and use the right-click option on the selected virtual machine.
Remove VM From Plan: Use this option to delete the virtual machine from the selected plan.
Create Clone Backup: Use this option to create a boot disk backup copy of the virtual machine.
Unplanned Failback: Use this option to fail back the application from the boot disk backup copy of the virtual machine on target ESX to the original virtual machine on primary ESX.
Note:
This option is available only if you have set unplanned recovery policies as Restart VM on target ESX or Restore VM on target ESX.
Properties: Use this option to view properties such as the last run time for backup operation, last successful backup attempt time and the target ESX details.
See Plan states.