HP Application Recovery Manager software Integration guide (March 2008)

Configuring the VSS Hardware Provider for Disk Array XP

Before you run backups, open the HP StorageWorks XP VSS Hardware Provider

Configuration Utility and choose the configuration mode for your backups: VSS

Compliant Mode or Resync Mode.

NOTE:

Changing the modes between backup sessions can impact the restore. For details, see

“HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP considerations” on page 63.

Microsoft Exchange Server writer specific configuration

A backup of the Microsoft Exchange database can be considered successful only if

the consistency check of the replicated datafiles succeeds.

It is recommended that the database stores and transaction logs reside on different

source volumes. In this case, you can restore only stores and perform roll-forward

recovery, Otherwise, if both are on the same source volume, all data residing on this

volume must be restored.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 configuration in LCR environment

When configuring an LCR environment, ensure that the original database and the

database copy have the same directory structure for their files. Otherwise, after

restore of an LCR copy to original database, mounting of the database will not be

correct.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 configuration in CCR environment

If you have a CCR environment where a production database resides on a different

EVA disk array than its copy and if the backup system is different from the application

system, ensure that:

• The backup system is connected to the same disk array where the replicas (volume

shadow copies) of backup objects (either production database or database copy)

will be created. For example, if you back up the production database, the backup

system must be connected to the same disk array on which the production

database resides. If you back up the database copy, then the backup system must

be connected to the same disk array on which the database copy resides.

Integrating the Application Recovery Manager ZDB integrations and Microsoft Volume

Shadow Copy Service