After you configure Data Protection for VMware and verify that you created a virtual machine backup suitable for recovery of a single Microsoft Exchange Server database, configure Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server inside the guest virtual machine.
About this task
Complete the following steps to configure
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server for data recovery.
Procedure
- Log on to the virtual machine that hosts the Microsoft Exchange database (vm_exc10).
- Verify that the following packages are installed:
- Data Protection for VMware recovery agent and license (from
the Data Protection for VMware product package)
- Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server
- Tivoli® Storage
Manager backup-archive client
You can install the Data Protection for VMware recovery agent,
license, and Tivoli Storage
Manager backup-archive client together by using
the Data Protection for VMware installation program. To install
the packages together, select the following advanced installation option: Install Data
Protection for VMware instant restore features only. Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server is installed separately.
- Configure Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server by using the
Tivoli Storage
Manager configuration wizard. When you open the
Tivoli Storage Manager Node Names page of the wizard, enter the VMware
datacenter node name, Exchange Server node name, and VSS requestor node name. If the datacenter node
name field is disabled, the Data Protection for VMware recovery
agent is not installed correctly.
- After Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server is
configured, verify that the Configuring Recovery Agent rule
status indicates Passed.
- Log on to one of the data mover instances and complete the following steps. These steps must be run from only one instance of a data mover. Do not repeat these steps for
all data mover instances.
- For the Tivoli Storage
Manager backup-archive client that is configured
as the VSS requestor node, for example, exc10, give access to the virtual machine
backups, for example, file space for vm_exc10 by using the client set
access command at the command line.
You must complete this step because the VSS requestor node accesses the virtual machine backups
on behalf of Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server.
This command is run directly from the datacenter node (
datacenter10). If the
current data mover options file (
dsm.opt) contains an
ASNODE entry, create a temporary options file. To create a temporary options
file, complete the following steps:
- Copy the dsm.opt file to the dsm.setaccess.opt
file.
- Edit the dsm.setaccess.opt file. For any line that contains
ASNODE, delete the line.
- Edit the dsm.setaccess.opt file to set the NODENAME
option to the following entry:
NODENAME DC_NODE
For example:
DC_NODE = datacenter10
- Enter the following command:
dsmc set access backup -type=VM vm_name vss_requestor_node
-optfile=dsm.setaccess.opt
Example
dsmc set access backup –type=VM vm_exc01 exc01 –optfile=dsm.setaccess.opt
ANS1148I "Set Access" command successfully completed.
dsmc query access
Node name: datacenter10
Type Node User Path
------ ------ ------ ------
Backup exc10 * \VMFULL-vm_exc10\*\*
ANS1148I "Query Access" command completed successfully
If the datacenter node name password is unknown, the Tivoli Storage
Manager server administrator must reset the password to run
the set access command.