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
Setting up a plan
Plan is a template which involves a logical grouping of virtual machines so as to increase the availability of the application in the event of a planned failover and recovery of the application in the event of an unexpected application failure.
To set up a plan
- Launch Veritas AppProtect from the VMware vSphere Web Client > Home view > Veritas AppProtect icon.
- Click Configure Plan.
The Plan Configuration wizard appears.
- Specify a unique Plan Name and Description, and then click Next.
The wizard validates the system details to ensure that all prerequisites are met.
- Select the virtual machines that you want to include in the plan, review the host and operating system details, and then click Next.
The Unplanned Recovery Settings page appears.
- On the Unplanned Recovery Settings page, you can configure the selected virtual machines for Unplanned Recovery as well.
Deselect the Configure selected VMs for Unplanned Recovery as well check box, if you do not want to include the selected virtual machines for unplanned recovery.
If you have selected the virtual machines for unplanned recovery, then set up the unplanned recovery policies as appropriate from the available options. You can set up policies to restart applications, restart virtual machines, restart virtual machine on target ESX, and restore a virtual machine on target ESX.
If you have selected Restore VM on target ESX as the unplanned recovery policy, then you can set up a schedule to create a boot disk back up copy of the virtual machine within the configured plan. You can set the frequency as daily, weekly, monthly, or manual as per your requirement.
After you have finished making necessary settings for Unplanned Recovery, Click Next.
- The wizard validates the prerequisite attributes of the virtual machine and the ESX host, and adds the qualified virtual machines to the plan.
Click Next after the validation process completes.
- In the Disks tab, you can view the selected application data disks. Just In Time Availability solution uses the selected data disks to perform detach-attach operation during a planned failover and unplanned recovery.
Note:
If the disks are not auto-marked as selected to perform detach-attach operation, then first refresh the VIOM server and then the VCenter server in VIOM and then create a plan.
- In the Network Configuration tab, specify the network interface configuration details for the cloned virtual machine. Make sure to specify at least one public interface and valid IP details.
- In the Unplanned Recovery Target tab, specify the target ESX server to restore the virtual machine, and the target ESX port details.
Note:
The Unplanned Recovery Target tab is visible only when Restart VM on target ESX or Restore VM on target ESX is selected.
- In the Windows Settings tab, specify the domain name, Microsoft Windows product license key, domain user name, domain password, admin password, and time zone index.
Note:
The Windows Settings tab is visible only when a Windows virtual machine is selected in the plan.
- Click Next. The Summary wizard appears.
- In the Summary wizard, review the plan details such as the plan name, unplanned recovery policies, schedule, and so on.
Deselect the Start backup process on finish checkbox if you do not want to initiate a backup process when the plan creation procedure is finished. This checkbox is selected by default.
Click Create. The plan is created and saved.
- Click Finish to return to the plans tab and view the created plans.
See Managing a plan.
See Deleting a plan.