To manage your database using SnapManager, you need to migrate it from your local disk and configure it on the storage systems assigned for use by SnapManager.
Before you begin
If the computer that you want to use for database verification does not have Exchange installed, you must configure the necessary files on it according to Windows host system requirements.
Ensure that you go through documentation on automatic e-mail notification settings before you start the configuration.
About this task
For configuring archived database by using Protection Manager with SnapManager, SnapManager currently allows only the Backup and Remote backups only policies to be implemented. Back up is selected as the default option. You can change the policy by using the Netapp Management Console.
You can configure the following automatic e-mail notification settings using the Configuration wizard:
• Automatic SMTP e-mail notification for event notification
• Enable Syslog (storage system event log) support
• Enable AutoSupport for SnapManager
• Limit event logging to failure events
After you complete the Configuration wizard, you can also view or change these settings by selecting Notification Settings from the Actions pane to access the Auto Notification Settings dialog box. You should enable all of the automatic event notification options; this ensures that if any problems with your SnapManager backups occur, you are alerted and can take corrective action in a timely manner.
The list of available drives changes as you make choices that rule out other options.
Any time you use the Configuration wizard to move data from one drive to another, backups performed before the migration become invalid. After you migrate your databases to a new LUN, always perform an immediate backup.
Steps
1. In the Actions pane, click Configuration wizard.
2. If you want to use a control file for your configuration, click Use Control File, and then specify the path to the control file that you want to use.
3. In the Database Verification Server page, specify the Exchange server to be used to perform Exchange database verification, or select the option Select a verification server later using the Options menu.
4. In the Select a Storage Group or database to move to a LUN page, associate your CCR-enabled Exchange Storage Groups or databases with the correct LUNs, according to your SnapManager data configuration plan.
5. In the Select a set of logs from one or more Storage Group to move to a LUN page, associate your transaction logs with the correct LUNs, according to your SnapManager data configuration plan.
6. In the Select directories to store the backup information page, select the SnapInfo files, and the LUN to which you want to move them and click <=>.
7. If you have datasets configured on your system, in the Configure Dataset for Backup Archival page, select the Storage Groups that you want to add to your dataset, and click Next.
8. Choose the default protection policy as Back up or Remote backups only as per your requirement.
9. In the Add Microsoft iSCSI Service Dependency window, select Yes, add the.. if you want to add iSCSI service as a dependency for the MSExchangeSA service.
10. Use the Configure Automatic Event Notification page to configure the automatic event notification options for SnapManager.
11. Review the configuration summary in the Completing the Configuration Wizard page, and click Finish.
12. Click Start Now to migrate your databases and their transaction logs and SnapInfo files to the LUNs you specified.
Note: If you are moving the location of Exchange databases in this step, it could take some time to complete.
13. Click OK.
After you finish
Create a SnapManager backup immediately.
Next topics
Moving a Storage Group to a LUN on page 98 Moving an individual database to a LUN on page 99
Changing the location of a Storage Group or database on page 100 Viewing the full path for database files on page 100
Related concepts
Considerations for selecting the database verification server on page 250
Why SnapManager uses NTFS hard links for transaction log archiving on page 84 Support for multiple SnapInfo directories on page 85
Database backup using SnapManager on page 129
Related tasks
Adding Exchange servers to be managed on page 249
Starting SnapManager and connecting to the default server on page 70 Moving transaction logs to a LUN on page 101
Configuring automatic event notification settings on page 271 Creating a dataset using SnapManager on page 241
Related references
Windows host system requirements on page 36
Moving a Storage Group to a LUN
The Configuration wizard enables you to select the LUNs in which you want to store your Exchange databases when you complete the wizard. You use the Where to Move Databases window to select the LUNs.
The list of available drives changes as you make choices that rule out other choices.
Steps
1. In the Actions pane, click Configuration wizard.
2. In the Where to Move Databases page, select the Storage Group that you want to move.
3. In the Disk list, select the drive letter for the LUN, or the local disk that you want to move the Storage Group or database to.
4. Click <=>.
The selected Storage Group or database and disk gets associated, and the Storage Group files or database are then moved to that disk when the Configuration wizard moves your data.
5. Step through the wizard, and review the configuration summary in the Completing the Configuration Wizard page, and click Finish.
6. Click Start Now.
Note: If you are moving the location of Exchange databases in this step, it could take some time to complete.
7. Click OK.
Moving an individual database to a LUN
The Configuration wizard enables you to move an individual database to a LUN. You use the Where to Move Databases page to move an individual database to a LUN.
The list of available drives changes as you make choices that rule out other choices.
Steps
1. In the Actions pane, click Configuration wizard.
2. In the Disk list, select the drive letter for the disk that you want to move the database to.
3. Click <=>.
The selected database and the disk gets associated, and the database files are then moved to that disk, when the Configuration wizard moves your data.
4. Step through the wizard, and review the configuration summary in the Completing the Configuration Wizard page, and click Finish.
5. Click Start Now.
Note: If you are moving the location of Exchange databases in this step, it could take some time to complete.
6. Click OK.
Changing the location of a Storage Group or database
The Configuration wizard enables you to change the location of a Storage Group that you had associated with a LUN, or local disk, if you want to change your configuration plan.
The list of available drives changes as you make choices that rule out other choices.
If the Exchange system file path for a Storage Group is on the database LUN (placed for a previous version of SnapManager), and then you use the Configuration wizard to reconfigure a database path of the Storage Group or file path of the transaction log, then the Configuration wizard automatically moves the system file path to the same LUN as the file path of the transaction log.
Steps
1. In the Actions pane, click Configuration wizard.
2. Under Database Location Results, highlight the Storage Group you want to move, and click Reconfigure.
The selected Storage Group or database is returned to the list of unconfigured databases, and you can re-associate it with any available disk.
3. Step through the wizard, and review the configuration summary in the Completing the Configuration Wizard page, and click Finish.
4. Click Start Now.
Note: If you are moving the location of Exchange databases in this step, it could take some time to complete.
5. Click OK.
Viewing the full path for database files
The Configuration wizard enables you to view the full path for your database, or Storage Group files.
Steps
1. In the Actions pane, click Configuration wizard.
2. In the Configuration wizard, highlight a Storage Group or the database under Database Location Results, and click Details.
The Storage Group Properties window appears for the selected Storage Group.
3. To see the file path for the databases in this Storage Group, highlight the database and click Details.
The current paths and file names for the selected database are displayed, along with the new paths and file names if the location of the selected database has changed.
4. Step through the wizard, and review the configuration summary in the Completing the Configuration Wizard page, and click Finish.
5. Click Start Now.
Note: If you are moving the location of Exchange databases in this step, it could take some time to complete.
6. Click OK.