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Recovering NEC Clusters

Disaster recovery in a Windows-based cluster environment is a complex task. Although Arcserve Backup makes it easier to recover your mission-critical cluster environment, it still requires some planning and effort. It is important that you understand the concepts described and test the scenarios suitable for your specific environment.

A server cluster is a group of independent servers running cluster services and working collectively as a single system. Server clusters provide high-availability, scalability, and manageability for resources and applications by grouping multiple servers running Windows 2003 Advanced Server.

The following sections provide information about recovering the cluster-shared disks, failed cluster nodes, or the entire cluster, quickly and with minimum interruption to the service.

This section contains the following topics:

Disaster Recovery Requirements

Disaster Recovery Considerations

Information Required to Recover Cluster Nodes

Disaster Recovery on NEC CLUSTERPRO/ExpressCluster SE

Disaster Recovery on NEC CLUSTERPRO/ExpressCluster LE

Arcserve backup fails to start after recovery using the Disaster Recovery Option on CLUSTERPRO X2.0 in mirrored disk environment