Introduction
Virtualization and disaster recovery have become more and more important part of the organization as an insurance to ensure business continuation. However there is a lot of method in technology to recover business from disaster recovery which are cause by natural or human-induced disaster.
To be in detail disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity which involve more toward on planning to ensure every aspect of a business functioning in the midst of disruption events.Disaster recovery will be just focusing on the technology that can support the business in the event of disruption.
In the article, I will cover more toward on storage replication as there are lots more data are stored into it. Those data can be vhd which are used by hyper-v, mssql , file server and etc. In this sample of testing, I will be testing toward Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 which are running HyperV on top of it. I will explain more on the detail on part 2 regard on the software it self.
Requirement
You need to install the software on both end, which mean that if you are running the 1 server at production and another server at remote side. You will need to install the software at both location.
You can download the software at the steeleye website. You will need to fill up a requirement form before you can download the software
To be in detail disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity which involve more toward on planning to ensure every aspect of a business functioning in the midst of disruption events.Disaster recovery will be just focusing on the technology that can support the business in the event of disruption.
In the article, I will cover more toward on storage replication as there are lots more data are stored into it. Those data can be vhd which are used by hyper-v, mssql , file server and etc. In this sample of testing, I will be testing toward Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 which are running HyperV on top of it. I will explain more on the detail on part 2 regard on the software it self.
Requirement
You need to install the software on both end, which mean that if you are running the 1 server at production and another server at remote side. You will need to install the software at both location.
You can download the software at the steeleye website. You will need to fill up a requirement form before you can download the software
Installation
Once you have download the software, double click on the installation files and click next.
On the license agreement screen, click next to proceed.
On the features selection, keep the default option and click next.
Depending on which volume that have a bigger capacity you can choose to install into which location.However if you want to keep the default, you can click on the next button.
This are of the the system configuration I like most, where by it help you to configure your firewall to make sure that those port are open on your windows hosts.I will recommend you to use the default setting and click the yes option.
On this screen, you will need to upload the license files into the software before the software can properly run.
Browse on where the license files are store and select the install license files option.
Once you have install the license files, you will see a prompt on the summary of the license files that you have installed. Click ok button to proceed.
Press exit to finish the installation.
Reboot the host.
This is how the steeleye console look like. You can use the MMC later to configure the replication.
Once you have download the software, double click on the installation files and click next.
On the license agreement screen, click next to proceed.
On the features selection, keep the default option and click next.
Depending on which volume that have a bigger capacity you can choose to install into which location.However if you want to keep the default, you can click on the next button.
This are of the the system configuration I like most, where by it help you to configure your firewall to make sure that those port are open on your windows hosts.I will recommend you to use the default setting and click the yes option.
On this screen, you will need to upload the license files into the software before the software can properly run.
Browse on where the license files are store and select the install license files option.
Once you have install the license files, you will see a prompt on the summary of the license files that you have installed. Click ok button to proceed.
Press exit to finish the installation.
Reboot the host.
This is how the steeleye console look like. You can use the MMC later to configure the replication.
Reference
Part 1 : Installing SteelEye Storage Replication software
Part 2 : Consideration Of Storage Replication
Part 3 : Scenario of Storage Replication
Part 4 : Configure Storage Replication mirror
Part 5 : Configure cluster
Part 6 : Configure high availability VM(Live migration without shared storage)
Summary
hi
ReplyDeletevery good article and well explain everything
i have a small question
QUE:what is vhd?
and it will be more helpfull if you expalin more about working featue of steeley console .
Thanks,
Abhishek choudhary
www.tech4urhelp.blogspot.com
Hi Abshishek, thanks for your comment. You might want to check out the following http://www.wongchonkit.com/2011/09/virtual-hard-disk.html
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