Users Guide

Install HIT on a Failover Cluster
If you install Host Integration Tools on a running cluster, you are prompted to configure the installation for cluster operation and
it is not necessary to complete the tasks described in the previous sections.
Before you begin, make sure the following prerequisites are met:
● You must use an account that is a Microsoft domain user account with local administrative access. Consider creating a
named account such as ASMadmin to use for ASM/ME operations on the cluster. You can use this account to log in to
required services. If any cluster node is running Exchange and SQL Server (using PS Series iSCSI volumes), you must also
make sure that your user account has the appropriate security group access for those applications.
● If you are using multipathing with the MPIO DSM, you must use an identical configuration on each node.
To install the Host Integration Tools on a failover cluster:
1. Set up a shared network folder for the backup documents and collection definitions on a volume that is accessible to all
cluster nodes. If you create the shared folder on a clustered iSCSI volume on your PS Series group, ASM/ME identifies the
volume as a supported volume on the cluster node that owns the share. However, it prevents you from restoring data from
any Smart Copies of the shared volume.
2. Install the same version of Host Integration Tools on every cluster node. Select the same set of components to install on
each node. After you perform a first-time manual installation on a cluster node, click Add Hosts in the ASM/ME GUI to push
parallel installations to the rest of the cluster nodes. See Installing HIT on Remote Hosts Using the Add Hosts Wizard for how
to perform this operation.
3. Configure PS Series group access for each node, specifying identical responses each time. See the Dell EqualLogic Auto-
Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition User’s Guide for information about configuring group access.
4. Use ASM/ME to specify the backup document directory and ASM services login account on each cluster node. Because
ASM/ME uses the specified login account credentials to access the shared network folder, specify both the document
directory and login account at the same time.
● To specify the network folder, see Specify the ASM/ME Backup Document Directory.
● To specify the login account, see Change the Logon Account for ASM/ME Services (EQLReqService and EqlASMAgent).
Specify the ASM/ME Backup Document Directory
To set or modify the ASM/ME Backup Document directory:
1. In ASM/ME, click Settings in the navigation area.
2. Click the General Settings tab.
3. Perform the following steps:
● Specify a directory for backup documents.
● Specify the UNC path for the shared volume instead of the default location.
You specify the network share name by using UNC format such as \\server-name\shared-resource-pathname
or \\ClustersystemFS\H$\VSS Requestor\.
4. Click Save.
Change the Login Account for ASM/ME Services (EQLReqService
and EqlASMAgent)
1. In ASM/ME, click Settings in the Navigation area.
2. Click the General Settings tab.
If you are managing multiple hosts and want to make the same changes to multiple hosts, multiselect the hosts in the middle
panel. The changes will affect all selected hosts.
3. Select the option to run the ASM/ME services from the local system user account, or another specified user account. If you
want to specify another user, you must provide the domain, user name, and password credentials.
See the Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition User’s Guide for more information.
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