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InfoScale 9.2.0 Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions, Solutions Guide - Windows
Section I. Introduction
Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions
About Quick Recovery
About high availability
About campus clusters
About disaster recovery
About Microsoft clustering solutions
How this guide is organized
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
SFW best practices for storage
Best practices for storage availability
Adding software mirrors for critical data
Locating data objects for optimum recovery
Managing three-way software mirrors for reliability
Software striping and mirroring on top of hardware RAID for high availability
Best practices configuring SFW disk groups for availability
Configuring disk groups for separate storage capacity pools or common pools
Allocating disk groups for availability in clusters
Best practices for storage performance
Host-based mirroring for increased read performance and failure tolerance
Software striping across hardware for increased performance
Using software RAID 5 for read-mostly data
Best practices for I/O performance tuning
Striping for I/O-request-intensive applications
Striping for data-transfer-intensive applications
Best practices for storage capacity management
Managing storage allocation for flexibility
Aggregating hardware RAID for very large volumes
Managing unallocated space for free space savings
Reserving spares for failure-tolerant volume recovery
Section II. Quick Recovery
Quick Recovery overview
About the Quick Recovery solution
Need for implementing the SFW Quick Recovery solution
Understanding the underlying components of SFW's Quick Recovery process
Overview of the Quick Recovery process
Creating initial snapshots
Refreshing a snapshot
Recovering a database
Other applications for point-in-time snapshots
Off-host backups
Reporting and analysis
Application testing and training
Quick Recovery example
Example of quick recovery of an Oracle database
Creating a split-mirror snapshot of the database
Recovering the database using the split-mirror snapshot and database logs
Tips and references about FlashSnap
Section III. High Availability
High availability- Overview
About high availability
About clusters
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
Deploying InfoScale Enterprise for high availability- New installation
About the high availability solution
Tasks for a new high availability (HA) installation - additional applications
Reviewing the InfoScale installation requirements
Notes and recommendations for cluster and application configuration
IPv6 support
Reviewing the configuration
Configuring the storage hardware and network
About installing the InfoScale® products
Configuring disk groups and volumes
Planning disk groups and volumes
Planning your File Share storage
Planning your IIS storage
Planning your storage for additional applications
Considerations for a fast failover configuration
Creating a dynamic disk group
Creating dynamic volumes
About managing disk groups and volumes
Importing a disk group and mounting a volume
Unmounting a volume and deporting a disk group
Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard
Configuring notification
About modifying the cluster configuration
Adding nodes to a cluster
Removing nodes from a cluster
Reconfiguring a cluster
Configuring the ClusterService group
Configuring notification
Configuring the wide-area connector process for global clusters
Deleting a cluster configuration
About installing and configuring the application or server role
About configuring a File Share server role
About installing and configuring the IIS application
About installing additional applications
Configuring the service group
About configuring file shares
Before you configure a file share service group
Configuring file shares using the wizard
Creating non-scoped file shares configured with VCS
Making non-scoped file shares accessible while using virtual server name or IP address if NetBIOS and WINS are disabled
About configuring IIS sites
Before you configure an IIS service group
Fixing the IPv6 address configuration for FTP sites
Installing IIS on Windows Server Core
Configuring an IIS service group using the wizard
About configuring applications using the Application Configuration Wizard
Before you configure service groups using the Application Configuration wizard
Adding resources to a service group
Configuring a GenericService resource
Configuring processes
Configuring a ServiceMonitor resource
Configuring VCS components
Configuring service groups using the Application Configuration Wizard
About configuring the Oracle service group using the wizard
Prerequisites for configuring the Oracle service group
Creating an Oracle service group using the wizard
Configuring dependent services
Enabling fast failover for disk groups (optional)
Configuring the service group in a non-shared storage environment
Verifying the cluster configuration
Possible tasks after completing the configuration
Modifying the application service groups
Modifying a file share service group using the wizard
Modifying an IIS service group using the wizard
Modifying an application service group
About modifying an Oracle service group
Prerequisites for modifying the Oracle service group
Modifying an Oracle service group
Deleting an Oracle service group
Configuring detail monitoring
Enabling detail monitoring
Disabling detail monitoring
Adding DMP to a clustering configuration
About Dynamic Multi-Pathing
Overview of configuration tasks for adding DMP DSMs
Reviewing the prerequisites
Reviewing the configuration
Setting up DMP in a new cluster configuration
Setting up DMP in an existing cluster configuration
Section IV. Campus Clustering
Introduction to campus clustering
About Campus Clusters
Sample campus cluster configuration
Differences between campus clusters and local clusters
Deploying InfoScale Enterprise for campus cluster
About the Campus Cluster solution
Reviewing the configuration
Overview of campus clustering with VCS
Reinstating faulted hardware
Setting the ForceImport attribute
Installing and configuring the hardware
Creating disk groups and volumes
About cluster disk groups and volumes
Example disk group and volume configuration in campus cluster
Considerations when creating disks and volumes for campus clusters
Viewing the available disk storage
Adding disks to campus cluster sites
Creating volumes for campus clusters
Installing the application on cluster nodes
About configuring a File Share server role in a campus cluster
About installing and configuring the IIS application in a campus cluster
About installing additional applications in a campus cluster
Deporting and importing a disk group in a campus cluster
Configuring service groups
Section V. Replicated Data Clusters
Introduction to Replicated Data Clusters
About Replicated Data Clusters
How VCS Replicated Data Clusters work
Setting up a Replicated Data Cluster configuration
Setting up replication
Configuring the service groups
Migrating the service group
Deploying Replicated Data Clusters- New application installation
Tasks for a new replicated data cluster installation - additional applications
Sample configuration
Setting up security for Volume Replicator
Configuring disk groups and volumes
Planning disk groups and volumes
Planning your File Share storage
Planning your IIS storage
Planning your storage for additional applications
Installing and configuring the application or server role
Configuring a File Share server role
Installing and configuring the IIS application
Installing additional applications
Configuring the service group
Creating the primary system zone for the application service group
Creating a parallel environment in the secondary zone
Creating the Replicated Data Sets with the wizard
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
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 application service group
Configuring the RVG Primary resources
Creating the RVG Primary resources
Linking the RVG Primary resources to establish dependencies
Bringing the RVG Primary resources online
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 the nodes from the secondary zone to the application service group
Configuring the zones in the application 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
Bringing the service group online
Switching online nodes
Additional instructions for GCO disaster recovery
Section VI. Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery- Overview
About a disaster recovery solution
Need for implementing a disaster recovery solution
Overview of the recovery process
Components of Volume Replicator that enable disaster recovery
Understanding replication
Modes of replication
Synchronous replication
Asynchronous replication
Synchronous override replication
Features of Volume Replicator that help in disaster recovery
Deploying disaster recovery- New application installation
Tasks for a new disaster recovery installation - additional applications
Tasks for setting up DR in a non-shared storage environment
Reviewing the configuration
Supported disaster recovery configurations for service group dependencies
Setting up the secondary site- Configuring SFW HA and setting up a cluster
Verifying that your application or server role is configured for HA at the primary site
Setting up your replication environment
Requirements for EMC SRDF array-based hardware replication
Software requirements for configuring EMC SRDF
Replication requirements for EMC SRDF
Requirements for Hitachi TrueCopy array-based hardware replication
Software requirements for Hitachi TrueCopy
Replication requirements for Hitachi TrueCopy
Assigning user privileges (secure clusters only)
About configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard
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 the application or server role (secondary site)
Installing the FileShare application
Installing the IIS application
Installing additional applications
Cloning the service group configuration from the primary site to the secondary site
Configuring the application service group in a non-shared storage environment
Configuring replication and global clustering
Configuring Volume Replicator replication and global clustering
Configuring EMC SRDF replication and global clustering
Optional settings for EMC SRDF
Configuring Hitachi TrueCopy replication and global clustering
Optional settings for HTC
Configuring global clustering only
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
Linking clusters- Adding a remote cluster to a local cluster
Converting a local service group to a global service group
Bringing a global service group online
Verifying the disaster recovery configuration
Adding multiple DR sites (optional)
Possible task after creating the DR environment- Adding a new failover node to a Volume Replicator environment
Preparing the new node
Preparing the existing DR environment
Modifying the replication and application service groups
Reversing replication direction
Maintaining- Normal operations and recovery procedures (Volume Replicator environment)
Normal operations- Monitoring the status of the replication
Performing planned migration
Disaster recovery procedures
Restoring the primary host
Recovery procedures for service group dependencies
Testing fault readiness by running a fire drill
About disaster recovery fire drills
About the Fire Drill Wizard
About Fire Drill Wizard general operations
About Fire Drill Wizard operations in a Volume Replicator environment
Preparing the fire drill configuration
About running the fire drill
About restoring the fire drill configuration
About deleting the fire drill configuration
About Fire Drill Wizard operations in a Hitachi TrueCopy or EMC SRDF environment
About post-fire drill scripts
Tasks for configuring and running fire drills
Prerequisites for a fire drill
Prerequisites for a fire drill in a Volume Replicator environment
Prerequisites for a fire drill in a Hitachi TrueCopy environment
Prerequisites for a fire drill in an EMC SRDF environment
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
Fire Drill Deletion panel details
Considerations for switching over fire drill service groups
Section VII. Microsoft Clustering Solutions
Microsoft clustering solutions overview
About Microsoft clustering with high availability
About Microsoft clustering with Volume Replicator
About Microsoft clustering with campus clustering
About the SFW-Microsoft clustering-Volume Replicator configuration
Configuring the quorum device for high availability
Deploying SFW with Microsoft failover clustering
Tasks for deploying InfoScale Storage with Microsoft failover clustering
Reviewing the configuration
Configuring the storage hardware and network
Establishing a Microsoft failover cluster
Tasks for installing InfoScale Foundation or InfoScale Storage for Microsoft failover clustering
Pre-installation task- moving the online groups
Installing the server components using the installation wizard
Applying the selected installation and product options to multiple systems
Registering the InfoScale Storage resource DLLs
Installing the client components
Post-installation task- moving the online groups
Creating SFW disk groups and volumes
Planning disk groups and volumes
Creating a group for the application in the failover cluster
Installing the application on cluster nodes
Completing the setup of the application group in the failover cluster
Implementing a dynamic quorum resource
Creating a dynamic cluster disk group and a mirrored volume for the quorum resource
Adding a VMDg resource for the quorum
Changing the quorum resource to a dynamic mirrored quorum resource
Verifying the cluster configuration
Configuring InfoScale Storage in an existing Microsoft Failover Cluster
Deploying SFW with Microsoft failover clustering in a campus cluster
Tasks for deploying InfoScale Storage with Microsoft failover clustering in a campus cluster
Reviewing the configuration
Overview of campus clustering with Microsoft clustering
Campus cluster failure with Microsoft clustering scenarios
Dealing with a failover situation
Microsoft clustering quorum and quorum arbitration
Quorum
Cluster ownership of the quorum resource
The vxclus utility
Creating disk groups and volumes
Example disk group and volume configuration in campus cluster
Viewing the available disk storage
Implementing a dynamic quorum resource
Creating a dynamic cluster disk group and a mirrored volume for the quorum resource
Setting up a group for the application in the failover cluster
Installing the application on the cluster nodes
Pointers for installing the application on the first node
Pointers for installing the application on the second node
Completing the setup of the application group in the cluster
Deploying SFW and VVR with Microsoft failover clustering
Tasks for deploying InfoScale Storage and Volume Replicator with Microsoft failover clustering
Part 1- Setting up the cluster on the primary site
Reviewing the prerequisites and the configuration
Reviewing the configuration
Installing and configuring the hardware
Installing Windows and configuring network settings
Installing InfoScale Storage (primary site)
Creating SFW disk groups and volumes
Completing the primary site configuration
Part 2- Setting up the cluster on the secondary site
Repeating cluster configuration steps for the secondary site
Part 3- Adding the Volume Replicator components for replication
Volume Replicator components overview
Configuring the Replicator Log volumes for Volume Replicator
Creating resources for Volume Replicator
Creating an RVG resource and setting the dependencies
Creating an RVG resource
Setting the application resource dependency on the RVG resource
Part 4- Maintaining normal operations and recovery procedures
Normal operations- Monitoring the status of the replication
Performing planned migration
Disaster recovery procedures
Bringing up the application on the secondary host
Restoring the primary host
Section VIII. Server Consolidation
Server consolidation overview
Server consolidation definition
Need for implementing server consolidation
Advantages of using SFW with server consolidation
Overview of the server consolidation process
Server consolidation configurations
Typical server consolidation configuration
Proof of concept
Server consolidation configuration 1 - many to one
About this configuration
Proof of concept
Phased approach- Flexible use of storage devices
Preparing to consolidate
Migrating the data to the large server
Adding the storage array
Completing the consolidation process
Server consolidation configuration 2 - many to two- Adding clustering and DMP
About this configuration
More on DMP paths
Adding the new hardware
Establishing the Microsoft failover cluster
Adding SFW support to the cluster
Setting up Microsoft failover cluster groups for the applications
Installing applications on the second computer
Completing the setup of the application group in the Microsoft cluster
Changing the quorum resource to the dynamic quorum resource
Verifying the cluster configuration
Enabling DMP
SFW features that support server consolidation
Automatic volume growth
Features that support storage in a SAN
Performance monitoring
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