User's Manual

2.6
System Requirements
3PAR Recovery Manager 3.0.2 for Microsoft SQL Server User’s Guide
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2.5 System Requirements
■ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP2 or above, or Windows Server 2008.
■ Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with SP2 or above, or Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
■ SQL Server client utilities need to be installed on the backup server.
■ All SQL instances need to be TCP/IP enabled and in order to create snapshots for named SQL
instances, their corresponding SQL Browser Service(s) must be turned on.
■ Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 or above.
■ Recovery Manager for SQL license for the InServ Storage Server.
■ Snapshot space must be available on 3PAR Virtual Volumes where the SQL server database
resides.
In order to take snapshots on 3PAR’s base volume, the volume itself must have snapshot
space associated during the base volume creation. Please see the 3PAR InForm OS
Command Line Reference manual for creating a base volume with snapshot, or assigning
snapshot space after the base volume is created.
2.6 Recovery Manager Requirements
■ To perform snapshot creation and one-click backup, the Microsoft SQL Server database for
which virtual copies will be taken must be online.
■ One backup server is required.
■ Since Recovery Manager operates through VSS, the database must be online to perform a
file copy restore at the database level. To restore a SQL database that is offline, you can
either mount a previously created snapshot of this database to the production server and
copy over the database files. Or, you can issue a volume restore at the database-level. For
more information about restoring volumes, see Recovery Manager Commands on page 7.3.
NOTE: For platform-specific release levels, please refer to the latest 3PAR InForm
OS Configuration Matrix which can be accessed through the 3PAR Document
Control System (DCS).