HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.6.1-00 Configuration Guide

3. VERITAS Storage Foundation HA for Windows

Table 40 Database server requirements for cluster environment (Exchange Server 2003, SQL Server,

and file systems)

Cluster softwareDatabase server OS

Microsoft Cluster Service

Veritas Storage Foundation HA

for Windows 5.0

Windows Server 2003 SP2

Windows Server 2003 SP2 IPF

1, 2, 3

Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit)

1, 2, 3

Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (64-bit)

1, 2, 3

Windows Server Failover Cluster-

ing

Windows Server 2008 no SP/SP1, SP2

Windows Server 2008 IPF no SP/SP1, SP2

Windows Server 2008 no SP/SP1, SP2 (64-bit)

Windows Server 2008 R2 no SP or SP1

Windows Server 2008 R2 IPF no SP or SP1

Windows Server 2012 no SP

2, 5

Notes:

1. Cluster environments are not supported for usage with GPT disks. Please use MBR disks.

2. Exchange Server 2003 is not supported.

3. To perform restore when a cluster source is online, the Microsoft Cluster Service correction

module (Hotfix 903650) is required. Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or Windows

Server 2003 R2 is the prerequisite OS,

4. This is supported only when using the Application Agent CLI.

5. Be sure to install the FailoverCluster-CmdInterface (an optional component of WSFC). For details

about optional components, see the Microsoft documentation.

Cluster considerations

The following considerations apply to cluster support and operations:

• Application Agent supports both mutual standby cluster configurations (Active-Active) and opera-

tional standby cluster configurations (Active-Passive). However, For the cluster configuration,

Hitachi Replication Manager Software (Server) supports the “Active - Passive” configuration only.

• To restore backup data, the database must be taken offline. If a database is taken offline while

the cluster resources that are monitoring the database are still online, a failover will occur. This

usually requires controlling control cluster resources manually. With Application Agent, cluster

resources that monitor the database are automatically taken down and brought back online

whenever Application Agent is used to perform a backup or restore operation for data.

• In a cluster environment using MSCS/WSFC, you can choose whether to perform a restore oper-

ation while the cluster resources that monitor the database are online or offline. For a restore op-

eration in which the cluster resources are offline, you need to take all the databases that are using

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