Storage Foundation 8.0 Quick Recovery Solutions Guide for Microsoft Exchange - Windows
- Introducing Quick Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
- Planning a Quick Recovery snapshot solution for Exchange
- System requirements
- Methods of implementing Quick Recovery snapshots
- Recommendations and best practices
- Configuring Exchange for Quick Recovery snapshots
- Implementing Exchange snapshot sets with the configuration wizard
- About the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard
- Scheduling Exchange snapshot sets
- Scheduling or creating an individual snapshot set for Exchange
- Maintaining or troubleshooting snapshots
- Recovering Exchange mailbox databases
- Recovering after hardware failure
- About recovery after hardware failure
- Scenario I: Database and transaction logs volumes are missing
- Scenario II: Database volumes missing, transaction logs are available
- Refreshing the snapshot set on the current disks
- Moving the production volumes to different disks and refreshing the snapshot set
- Vxsnap utility command line reference for Exchange
Creating snapshot mirrors of volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned
Prepare each of the new mirror volumes and choose to convert an existing mirror into a snap plex. Choose the mirror that was the snapshot volume of the failed production volume as the new snapshot mirror (snap plex).
To create the snapshot mirrors using the VEA console
- Right-click the desired volume, select Snap > SnapPrepare.
- The result of this command varies depending on whether or not there are additional disks available to create a new mirror. Choose from the following:
If the volume is mirrored and no additional disks are available to create a new mirror
Click the mirror where you want the snapshot volume to be created. Choose the mirror that was the snapshot volume of the failed production volume as the new snapshot mirror (snap plex). The remaining mirror will become the master (production) volume.
Click OK.
If the volume is mirrored and there are additional disks available on your system
Choose an existing mirror for the snapshot
Click Select existing mirror for snap.
Click the mirror where you want the snapshot volume to be created. Choose the mirror that was the snapshot volume of the failed production volume as the new snapshot mirror (snap plex). The remaining mirror will become the master (production) volume.
Click OK.
- Repeat the procedure to create a snapshot mirror for each volume associated with the Exchange databases and transaction logs.
Warning:
Make sure that the lower pane of the VEA console shows that the resynchronization process is complete before creating the new snapshot set.