Setting up the Enterprise Vault resource groups for a Microsoft cluster

You must create and configure a resource group for each virtual server that the cluster is to support. For example, for an N+M cluster, you require N resource groups. We recommend that Enterprise Vault cluster groups contain only resources related to Enterprise Vault.

Note:

The Enterprise Vault Configuration wizard does not support resource groups that contain multiple network name or IP address resources.

Table: Prerequisite resources for Enterprise Vault resource groups

Resource type

Dependencies

Parameters

Comment

Physical Disk or Volume Manager Disk Group

None

Specify the required disk volume.

Configure one disk resource for each volume you have set up for use by this virtual server.

IP Address

None

  • Specify the IP address for the virtual server.

  • Specify the public network.

  • Enable NetBIOS for this address.

Configure one IP address resource.

On Windows Server 2008, you do not require a separate IP address resource, as you create the required address automatically when you add a Client Access Point (network name).

Network name

IP Address resource

  • Use the group name as the network name.

  • We recommend that you check DNS Registration Must Succeed.

  • Check Enable Kerberos Authentication. This is required by the Message Queuing resource.

Configure one network name resource.

Message Queuing

  • The Physical Disk resource for this virtual server's MSMQ data

  • The Network Name resource

None

Configure one message queuing resource.

To set up the Enterprise Vault resource groups for a Microsoft cluster

  1. Use Cluster Administrator to create and name the resource group.

  2. In the Properties of the resource group, specify the nodes that are to be the preferred owners of this resource group. List the nodes in the preferred order, according to your chosen operation mode.

  3. Add the prerequisite resources to the resource group. Add one resource of each resource type listed in the table, except where noted. We recommend you use the following naming format for the resources:

    groupname-resourcetype

    For example, if you named a resource group EV1 and you are adding a physical disk resource, name the resource EV1-PhysicalDisk. Later, the Enterprise Vault Configuration wizard adds Enterprise Vault service resources to the resource group using this naming format.

    Specify the required nodes as possible owners for each resource, according to your chosen operation mode.

When you have finished setting up the resource group, check that it can fail over between nodes without error.