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Memo

April 26, 2018

To: Robert Jones

From: (Student name)

Re: Site Fault Tolerance

Site-level tolerance involves the process of ensuring an organization has access to the most critical resources in times when a site goes offline on a long-term or short-term unexpectedly. Hyper-V replica found in windows server 2012 R2 introduced this feature which allows one to create a replica of a virtual machine which runs on Hyper-V. If the main Virtual Machine (VM) fails one can fail over the replica VM. Hence site-fault tolerance involves the act of having critical VM replicated into a second site.

One of the major benefit of this service is that it ensures an organization has all-time access to the most critical resources even in times of failure. Second, this service allows one to provide replication of primary virtual machines to the organization disaster recovery site. Another advantage, is that unlike the failover cluster, this service does not rely on a shared storage between the VMs instead it starts with its own copy of the main VM and sends updates of the changes to the second site. The replication frequency is after every five minutes, we need to take advantage of this service.

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Week 3 - Advanced Windows Configuration.docx

Running head: WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 RECOVERY

WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 RECOVERY 4

Westlake Olive Company: Windows Server 2012 R2 Recovery

Michael Boddie

Advanced Windows Services

NTC/328

April 16, 2018

Introduction

In the previous advanced configuration scenario for Westlake Olive, I created failover clustering for windows server 2012 R2. This paper provides a detailed steps for creating a Business Continuity plan in windows server 2012 R2.

Steps for recovering windows server 2012 R2

The very first step for recovering windows server 2012 R2 from a complete fail starts by creating a bootable Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE) CD using Automated System Recovery (ASR). In this step, one creates a bootable WinPE DVD which includes the Tivoli storage manager client.

The second step is to identify back-up archive client option values for connecting to Tivoli Storage Manager Server; the backup-archive option values include; the tcpserveraddress, tcpport, node name, and password

The third step is to start the computer with WinPE DVD. In this step one inserts the bootable DVD where a windows command prompt is displayed where it will show a command called wpeint. Test network connectivity is the third step. In here one uses the ping command. Example if the organization Tivoli storage manage is 10.0.1.78 one can ping the IP address to verify if the server is reachable. If the Tivoli server manager is not reachable the reason could be DHCP is not available hence one need to configure static IP address.

After this then one identifies the DVD drive letter which corresponds to winPE DVD. In this step, one starts DISKPART, where then uses the LIST VOLUME command to display the available volumes. If where windows server 2012 volume is listed one can use SELECT VOLUME command and ASSIGN LETTER command to change the drive letter of the DVD drive which one is not restoring. One then exits DISKPART Utility.

In step five, one configures the environment variables .i.e. the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client environment variables; the DSM_DIR, DSM_LOG, and DSM_CONFIG the following are some activities that one should perform.

· Setting the DSM_DIR to the directory of the WinPE DVD which contains the backup-achieve client command

· Setting DSM_CONFIG to fully qualified path of the dsm.opt file

In the sixth step is to configure a simple backup-achieve client options. The required options are nodename and tcpserveraddress. One then configures the backup-archive to connect to the required server version. One then verifies the back-up archive which can connect to the Tivoli storage manager server.

In the seventh step, the network administrator one starts a new instance of windows command prompt and starts the system state restore using the dsmc restore systemstate command prompt. One then makes a copy of the restored tsmvolmap.txt file and then mounts all the drives using the MOUNTVOL command. The last step is to restore boot drive, copy bootmgr to the hidden partition and restart the computer (Carvalho, 2013).

References Carvalho, L. (2013). Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cookbook : over 50 simple but incredibly effective recipes for mastering the administration of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Birmingham: Packt Pub.