Protecting Server Clusters; About Server Cluster Protection In Appassure 5; Supported Applications And Cluster Types - Dell PowerVault DL4000 User Manual

Protecting Server Clusters

About Server Cluster Protection In AppAssure 5

In AppAssure 5, server cluster protection is associated with the AppAssure agents installed on individual cluster nodes
(that is, individual machines in the cluster) and the AppAssure 5 Core, which protects those agents, all as if they were
one composite machine.
You can easily configure an AppAssure 5 Core to protect and manage a cluster. In the Core Console, a cluster is
organized as a separate entity, which acts as a 'container' to include the related nodes. For example, in the left
navigation area, the Core is listed at the top of the navigation tree, and then clusters are listed under the Core and
contain the associated individual nodes (on which the AppAssure agents are installed).
At the Core and cluster levels, you can view information about the cluster, such as the list of related nodes and shared
volumes. A cluster is displayed in the Core Console on the Machines tab, and you toggle the view (using Show/Hide) to
view the nodes included in the cluster. At the cluster level, you can also view corresponding Exchange and SQL cluster
metadata for the nodes in the cluster. You can specify settings for the entire cluster and the shared volumes in that
cluster, or you can navigate to an individual node (machine) in the cluster to configure settings just for that node and the
associated local volumes.

Supported Applications And Cluster Types

To protect your cluster properly, you must have installed the AppAssure 5 Agent on each of the machines or nodes in
the cluster. AppAssure 5 supports the application versions and cluster configurations listed in the following table.
Application
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft SQLl
The supported disk types include:
• GUID partition table (GPT) disks greater than 2 TB
• Dynamic disks
• Basic disks
The supported mount types include:
• Shared drives that are connected as drive letters (for example, D:)
• Shared drives that are connected as mount points
Application Version and Related
Cluster Configuration
2007 Single Copy Cluster (SCC)
2007 Cluster Continuous Replication
(CCR)
2010 Database Availability Group
(DAG)
2005, 2008, 2008 R2 Single Copy
Cluster (SCC)1
Windows Failover Cluster
2003, 2008, 2008 R2L
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