Creating a Business Continuance plan

When you create a Business Continuance plan for recovering Exchange data, you can create it at a local or remote location. The plan specifies resources and other information that will be needed for recovery after a disaster occurs.

About this task

Ensure that you associate initiators for connecting each of the LUNs in the destination host. For a cluster, associate initiators for each of the LUNs to each node of the destination cluster.

In a local recovery scenario, you can recover your Exchange data in the same host using a different set of storage resources. In a remote recovery scenario, you can recover the Exchange data in the remote host using a different set of storage resources.

For Exchange Server 2007 stand-alone remote recovery, mailbox re-homing is done automatically. In cluster configurations with Exchange, the Business Continuance plan creation will also configure the Access Control List of the Exchange machine account by adding access control entries for the DR cluster machine account and the cluster node machine accounts.

Steps

Launch the Business Continuance by using the path Start > All Programs > NetApp > SnapManager for Exchange Business Continuance.
In the Actions pane, click Manage Business Continuance.

Select a Business Continuance server.

If you want to create...	Then...
A local recovery plan	Connect to the production host and create the Business Continuance plan.
A remote recovery plan	Connect to the Business Continuance host and create the Business Continuance plan.

To proceed further with the chosen Business Continuance host, click Yes; otherwise, click No.
In the Actions pane, click New Business Continuance Plan.
In the Choose an Exchange Server page, specify the name of the Exchange server to be enabled for Business Continuance.
In the Recovery Cluster - Resource Information page, either select an existing network name, or specify the new resource details.
Select the Choose Existing Resources, Specify Network Name, Resource Group, IP Address, SubNet Mask, and Network type options.
In the Business Continuance Storage Resources page, specify the current production storage resources and the storage resources for disaster recovery.
For example, if the production storage resources are in the data center 1 and the Business Continuance storage resources are in the data center 2, you must first select the data center 1, and then data center 2.
In the Business Continuance Mirrors page, select the list of SnapMirror destinations for Business Continuance.
In the Choose Initiators page, specify the initiators to use for LUN connections from the host to storage resources.
In the Business Continuance Plan Details page, specify the name of the Business Continuance plan, describe the Business Continuance plan, and provide the emergency contact information.
Click Finish.