Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- About This Guide
- Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition Version 5.4 User's Guide
- Introduction to ASM/ME
- Functions Provided By ASM/ME
- Supported Applications
- HIT Groups and Multiple Machine Management
- ASM/ME Smart Copies
- Smart Copy Types
- Smart Copy Operations for Template and Thin Clone Volumes
- Robust Data Recovery
- Thin-Provisioning a Volume
- SAN Data Copy Offload
- Scripts and Command Generation
- Alerts and Event Notification
- Remote Installations
- Failover Cluster Support
- ASM/ME and the Virtual Snapshot Service
- Functions Provided By ASM/ME
- Configure ASM/ME
- PS Series Group Requirements
- Windows Computer Requirements
- Required Access Controls
- VSS/VDS Service Access to the Group
- Access to Volumes and Snapshots
- iSCSI Target Connections
- Volume Mount Point and Drive Letter Assignments
- Mount Point Constraints in Cluster Environments
- ASM/ME Settings
- ASM/ME Graphical User Interface
- Start the ASM/ME GUI
- Tree Panel
- Tree Panel Behavior in Failover Cluster Environments
- Tree Panel Nodes
- Tree Panel Icons
- Group SharePoint Farm Nodes, Clusters, or Host Nodes
- About Aliases
- Customize Color Themes
- HIT Groups
- General ASM/ME Operations
- About Volumes
- Operations on Failover Clusters
- About Collections
- About Schedules
- About Smart Copies
- Restoring Data
- View Multipath Information
- View I/O Details
- Using ASM/ME with Exchange
- View Exchange Applications in ASM/ME
- Exchange Operations
- Overview of Exchange Smart Copies
- Exchange eseutil.exe Utility
- Recovery Considerations for Exchange
- Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery
- Run Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery Immediately
- Run Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery After Smart Copy Creation
- Schedule a Global Verification Task for Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery
- Run Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery on a Remote Host
- View Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery Status
- Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery Logging and Notification
- Create Exchange Smart Copies
- Schedule Smart Copies for Exchange Components
- Recover Exchange Data
- Using ASM/ME with SQL Server
- Using ASM/ME with Hyper-V
- Using ASM/ME with SharePoint
- SharePoint Installation Considerations
- Plan to Install on a SharePoint Farm
- Example of ASM/ME Installed on a SharePoint Farm
- Example of a SharePoint Farm with a SQL Cluster
- Install ASM/ME on a SharePoint Farm
- About Changes to an Existing SharePoint Farm
- Remove a HIT Group Host From a SharePoint Farm
- Add a Writer Host to a SharePoint Farm
- Change a Writer Host in a SharePoint Farm
- Change the Writer Host and Disable the VSS Writer in a SharePoint Farm
- Respond to Changes in a SharePoint Farm
- View SharePoint Farm Components in ASM/ME
- SharePoint Smart Copies
- Restore Options for SharePoint Smart Copies
- Availability of SharePoint Data Restoration Operations
- Mount a SharePoint Smart Copy
- Restore Selected Databases from a SharePoint Smart Copy
- Restore a Database In-Place From a SharePoint Smart Copy
- Restore a Database From a SharePoint Smart Copy as a New Database
- Restore an SSA From a SharePoint Smart Copy
- Using the Command Line Interface
- Introduction to ASMCLI
- How to Use ASMCLI Commands
- General Command Syntax
- ASMCLI Command Summary
- Command Parameters
- ASMCLI Commands and Their Syntax
- ASMCLI -alert
- ASMCLI -breaksmartcopy
- ASMCLI -cloneReplica
- ASMCLI -configureASM
- ASMCLI -configureCHAP
- ASMCLI -createCollection
- ASMCLI -delete
- ASMCLI -deleteCollection
- ASMCLI -enumerateiSCSIPortals
- ASMCLI -enumerateSmartCopies
- ASMCLI -help
- ASMCLI -list
- ASMCLI -modifyCollection
- ASMCLI -mount
- ASMCLI -Properties
- ASMCLI -restore
- ASMCLI -selectiveRestore
- ASMCLI -shutdownsystray
- ASMCLI -shutdownverifier
- ASMCLI -smart
- ASMCLI -unmount
- ASMCLI -verify
- ASMCLI -version
- Use a Script to Create Smart Copies
- Recover a Clustered Volume From a Clone
- Index
Using ASM/ME with Hyper-V
Hyper-V enables you to create a virtualized server computing environment. When ASM/ME is installed on a system running
Hyper-V, you can create point-in-time Smart Copies of entire VMs from which you can recover data or entire VMs.
Hyper-V also enables you to run a client virtual machine (also called a guest O/S) in child partitions. Guest O/S can have
different operating systems, such as Linux, or different versions of Windows in each virtual machine.
● Smart Copies—Smart Copies are crash consistent, unless the VM is running both an O/S and an application that has
awareness of Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). In such cases, you can create application-consistent Smart Copies.
NOTE: You can create Smart Copies of rapid-provisioned VMs (using SCVMM), but the volumes do not have user-
visible mount points.
● Guest O/S—Other operating systems, including different Windows versions and Linux can participate as a guest O/S.
Specific configurations of Windows Server 2012 R2 that have the optional Integration Services (or Virtual Guest Services)
and other requisite software installed are considered Hyper-V aware. Also, specific applications, such as Exchange, are
qualified as being Hyper-V aware.
See the Host Integration Tools for Microsoft Release Notes for a list of operating systems that are supported by ASM/ME.
Topics:
• Hyper-V Requirements
• Hyper-V Specific Operations
• Cluster Shared Volumes
Hyper-V Requirements
Hyper-V requires the following:
● An x64 computer running the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2012 R2 or later.
● Your computer must comply with the BIOS setting requirements specified by Microsoft.
● Integration Services (Virtual Guest Services) components must be installed on every Windows guest operating system to
support online backup and data exchange. See the Microsoft Hyper-V documentation for installation information about
Integration Services.
● ASM/ME is limited by the current functions offered by the Hyper-V VSS writer.
● Running SQL Server or Exchange with a virtual machine does not provide ASM/ME options such as Recovery Mailbox
Database and Verification. You only get a copy and restore of the entire virtual machine.
● As with operations on SQL and Exchange, ASM/ME automatically detects multiple-writer objects and prevents you from
creating a multiple writer Smart Copy Set.
See the Host Integration Tools for Microsoft Release Notes for the most recent constraints for ASM/ME support of Hyper-V.
Hyper-V Supported Configuration
Dell supports only one configuration for ASM/ME support of Hyper-V for full Smart Copies, illustrated in the following figure.
In this scenario:
● Application data is stored on a VHD that is contained in an iSCSI target provisioned on the host.
● The VM boots to the VHD on the iSCSI target provisioned on the host.
● VSS-based backup of the VMs from the host O/S is supported.
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