Creating a parallel environment for Exchange Server on the secondary site


Creating a parallel environment for Exchange Server on the secondary site
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After setting up an SFW environment with Microsoft failover clustering and Exchange Server 2007 on the primary site, configure a parallel environment for Exchange on the secondary site. Many tasks use the same procedures as on the primary site.

The following procedures are different on the secondary site:

Install Exchange 2007

See Installing Exchange on the secondary site.
Set up the Exchange group on the secondary site

See Setting up the Exchange group on the secondary site.

Table 8-2 shows the full list of tasks in the recommended order, with guidelines specific to the secondary site. After completing these tasks you will have a clustered site with SFW and Exchange installed and configured on all the nodes on both the primary and the secondary sites. You can then proceed to configuring the Volume Replicator components for disaster recovery.

Table: Creating a parallel environment on the secondary site

Action	Description
Configure the storage hardware and network	Use the same procedure as on the primary site. See Configuring the storage hardware and network.
Establish a Microsoft failover cluster	Use the same procedure as on the primary site. For details, refer to the Microsoft documentation.
Install InfoScale Storage for a disaster recovery configuration	Use the same procedure as on the primary site.
Configure SFW disk groups and volumes,	Use the same procedure as on the primary site. Make sure the following are exactly the same as the cluster on the primary site: Cluster disk group names Volume names and sizes Drive letters See Tasks for configuring InfoScale Storage.
Implement a dynamic mirrored quorum resource	Use the same procedure as on the primary site. See Tasks for implementing a dynamic mirrored quorum resource.
Add Volume Manager Disk Group resources for the Exchange 2007 disk group(s)	Use the same procedure as on the primary site. Unlike on the primary site, the resource will not be used during the Exchange 2007 installation but will be used in the process of recovering the existing database and log information from Active Directory after Exchange installation. See Adding a Volume Manager Disk Group resource for Exchange 2007 installation. If you created any other Exchange storage groups, include resources for those disk groups as well. See Adding the Volume Manager Disk Group resources to the Exchange group.
Install Exchange 2007	See Installing Exchange on the secondary site.
Set up the Exchange group	Unlike on the primary site, Exchange installation does not create the Exchange group and resources. However, after Exchange installation, you can run a command that recovers the resource information from Active Directory. See Setting up the Exchange group on the secondary site.
Move the Volume Manager Disk Group resources to the Exchange group	Use the same procedure as on the primary site. See Moving Exchange databases and logs to shared storage.

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