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Rahul_Mishra's avatar
Rahul_Mishra
Level 3
9 years ago

Need steps to configure various components of SF 6.1 on windows 2008 R2 cluster in Documentation

I am trying to install SF 6.1 on windows 2008 R2 cluster. I am looking for manual steps to configure following

    How to create coordinator disk group and configure the fencing
    How to Create CVM, CFS, and service resource
    Steps to use thrash executable for IO test

 

Thanks

Rahul

business continuity
Storage Foundation for Windows
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Wally_Heim's avatar
    Wally_Heim
    9 years ago

    Hi Rahul,

    Here is a link to the SFW/SFW-HA 6.1 guides.  There are serveral solutions guides that would be able to help you out depending on your exact configuration.

    https://sort.veritas.com/documents/doc_details/sfha/6.1/Windows/ProductGuides/

    These 2 are specific to SFW and Windows failover cluster:

    Exchange: http://origin-download.veritas.com/resources/content/live/DOCUMENTATION/7000/DOC7295/en_US/sf_mscs_exch2007_solns_61_win.pdf

    SQL: http://origin-download.veritas.com/resources/content/live/DOCUMENTATION/7000/DOC7296/en_US/sf_mscs_sql_solns_61_win.pdf

    Thank you,

    Wally

     

     

  • Wally_Heim's avatar
    Wally_Heim
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    Hi Rahul,

    Coordiator disk group and fencing are not used by the Windows product.  There are no manual ways to set these up for Windows.

    We do have CVM (Clustered Volume Manager) on Windows Failover Clusters.  This is documented in the InfoScale 7.0 Administrator's Guide in chapter 14.  A link to the doc is at: http://origin-download.veritas.com/resources/content/live/DOCUMENTATION/8000/DOC8769/en_US/sf_admin_70_win.pdf

    For CVM, resources are automatically created in the cluster when volumes are created on a CVM enabled diskgroup.  There are no manual steps to create cluster resources for this type of diskgroup/volume.  I guess you could create the volume via CLI and that could be considered manually creating the volume/cluster resource.

    CFS (Clustered FileSystem) is not supported on the Windows product.

    Thank you,

    Wally

  • Rahul_Mishra's avatar
    Rahul_Mishra
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Hi Wally

      Thank you for the info. Can "Thrash" be used to generate IO in this case where CVM automatically creates the resources? If yes can you please provide the steps to run thrash on windows cluster.

     

    Thanks

    Rahul

       

  • Rahul_Mishra's avatar
    Rahul_Mishra
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Hi Wally

         I was going through the document and have found the following note in chapter 14 Page 1

    Note: CVM (and related cluster-shared disk groups) is supported only in a Microsoft
    Hyper-V environment. It is not supported for a physical environment

    I am trying to build cluster using two whindows 2008R2 physical nodes.

    Let me know if the document is still applicable? and what the note means

    Thanks

    Rahul

  • Wally_Heim's avatar
    Wally_Heim
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    Hi Rahul,

    I'm not familar with "Thrash" to be able to provide steps on how to use it.

    As for CVM, yes it is supported on Windows Hyper-V clusters only.  It is to allow Live-Migration to work correctly with SFW dynamic disks.

    Thank you,

    Wally

  • Rahul_Mishra's avatar
    Rahul_Mishra
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    HI Wally

         Thank you for the response. Can you please point me to the document for building cluster using two windows 2008R2 physical nodes

     

    Thanks

    Rahul

  • Wally_Heim's avatar
    Wally_Heim
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    Hi Rahul,

    Here is a link to the SFW/SFW-HA 6.1 guides.  There are serveral solutions guides that would be able to help you out depending on your exact configuration.

    https://sort.veritas.com/documents/doc_details/sfha/6.1/Windows/ProductGuides/

    These 2 are specific to SFW and Windows failover cluster:

    Exchange: http://origin-download.veritas.com/resources/content/live/DOCUMENTATION/7000/DOC7295/en_US/sf_mscs_exch2007_solns_61_win.pdf

    SQL: http://origin-download.veritas.com/resources/content/live/DOCUMENTATION/7000/DOC7296/en_US/sf_mscs_sql_solns_61_win.pdf

    Thank you,

    Wally

     

     

  • Rahul_Mishra's avatar
    Rahul_Mishra
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Thank you wally. Let me work with the doc. Will let you kno win case of any query.

    Thanks

    Rahul