Tasks for configuring disaster recovery for Enterprise Vault


Tasks for configuring disaster recovery for Enterprise Vault
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After setting up an SFW HA high availability environment for Enterprise Vault on a primary site, you can create a secondary or "failover" site for disaster recovery.

For Enterprise Vault, the Disaster Recovery (DR) wizard helps you to clone the storage from the primary site to the secondary site. The DR wizard also helps you set up replication and the global cluster (GCO option).

The DR wizard is available from the Solutions Configuration Center. Symantec recommends using the Solutions Configuration Center as a guide for installing and configuring disaster recovery.

See About the Solutions Configuration Center.

Note:

Symantec recommends as a best practice to configure SQL Server for disaster recovery before configuring Enterprise Vault for disaster recovery. Configuring SQL Server for disaster recovery is covered in the SQL Server solutions guides. See Where to get more information.

Table: Configuring the secondary site for disaster recovery (Continued)

Action

Description

Verify that Enterprise Vault has been configured for high availability at the primary site

See Verifying your primary site configuration.

Install SFW HA and configure the cluster on the secondary site

For implementing disaster recovery, the following options must be installed on both primary and secondary sites:

SFW Volume Replicator option
VCS GCO option

Warning:

Ensure that the name you assign to the secondary site cluster is different from the name assigned to the primary site cluster.

See Guidelines for installing SFW HA and configuring the cluster on the secondary site.

Set up the replication prerequisites

Ensure that replication prerequisites for your selected method of replication are met before running the DR wizard

See Setting up security for Volume Replicator.

Set up security for Volume Replicator

See Setting up security for Volume Replicator.

(Secure cluster only) Assign user privileges

For a secure cluster only, assign user privileges

See Assigning user privileges (secure clusters only).

Start the DR wizard to begin disaster recovery configuration

Review prerequisites for the DR wizard
Start the DR wizard and make the initial selections: selecting a primary site system, the service group, the secondary site system, and the replication method

See Configuring disaster recovery with the DR wizard.

Clone the storage configuration

Clone the storage configuration on the secondary site using the DR wizard

See Cloning the storage on the secondary site using the DR wizard (Volume Replicator replication option).

Create temporary storage for application installation (other replication methods)

(EMC SRDF, Hitachi TrueCopy, or GCO only replication option)

Use the DR wizard to create temporary storage for installation on the secondary site

See Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault on the secondary site.

Install Enterprise Vault on the cluster nodes

See Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault on the secondary site.

Create the EV service group configuration on the secondary site

The EV service group must be offline on the primary site before you configure the EV service group on the secondary site.

You must use the same service group name and virtual server name as on the primary site.

See Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault on the secondary site.

Configure the Enterprise Vault server in a cluster environment

See Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault on the secondary site.

Configure Volume Replicator replication and global clustering

Use the DR wizard to configure replication and global clustering

(EMC SRDF replication) Set up replication and then use the wizard to configure the SRDF resource and global clustering
(Hitachi TrueCopy) Set up replication and then use the wizard to configure the HTC resource and global clustering
(Other array-based replication) Use the wizard to configure global clustering, and then set up replication

Verify the disaster recovery configuration

Verify that the secondary site has been fully configured for disaster recovery

See Verifying the disaster recovery configuration.

(Optional) Add secure communication

Add secure communication between local clusters within the global cluster (optional task)

See Establishing secure communication within the global cluster (optional).

(Optional) Add additional DR sites

Optionally, add additional DR sites to a Volume Replicator environment

See Adding multiple DR sites (optional).

Handling service group dependencies after failover

If your environment includes dependent service groups, review the considerations for bringing the service groups online after failover to the secondary site

See Recovery procedures for service group dependencies.