User guide

190 | Protecting Server Clusters
You can easily configure an AppAssure 5 Core to protect and manage a cluster. In
the Core Console, a cluster is organized as a separate entity, which acts as a
‘container’ to include the related nodes. For example, in the left navigation area, the
Core is listed at the top of the navigation tree, and then clusters are listed under the
Core and contain the associated individual nodes (on which the AppAssure Agents
are installed).
At the Core and cluster levels, you can view information about the cluster, such as
the list of related nodes and shared volumes. A cluster appears in the Core Console
on the Machines tab, and you toggle the view (using Show/Hide) to view the nodes
included in the cluster. At the cluster level, you can also view corresponding
Exchange and SQL cluster metadata for the nodes in the cluster. You can specify
settings for the entire cluster and the shared volumes in that cluster, or you can
navigate to an individual node (machine) in the cluster to configure settings just for
that node and the associated local volumes.
Supported Applications and Cluster Types
To protect your cluster properly, you must have installed the AppAssure 5 Agent on
each of the machines or nodes in the cluster. AppAssure 5 supports the application
versions and cluster configurations listed in the following table.
The supported disk types include:
 GUID partition table (GPT) disks greater than 2 TB
 Basic disks
The supported mount types include:
 Shared drives that are connected as drive letters (for example, D:)
 Simple dynamic volumes on a single physical disk (not striped, mirrored, or
spanned volumes)
 Shared drives that are connected as mount points
Application
Application Version and Related Cluster
Configuration
Windows Failover
Cluster
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Single Copy Cluster (SCC)
2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR)
2003, 2008, 2008 R2
2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) 2008, 2008 R2
Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 Single Copy Cluster (SCC) 2003, 2008, 2008 R2
2012 Single Copy Cluster (SCC) 2008, 2008 R2, 2012