Configuring an Active Directory

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IBM Storage® Protect Plus versions 10.1.5 and earlier require the use of a local staging area on the application server in order to perform log backup of Microsoft SQL Server. If you want to avoid the use of a local staging area, you can optionally associate your primary and secondary backup storage with an active directory domain. When the vSnap server is added to a domain, any Microsoft SQL Server log backup jobs that are associated with that host will use domain authentication to mount the log backup volume and will write the log backups directly to the vSnap volume without using an intermediate staging area. IBM Storage Protect Plus versions 10.1.6 and later no longer require the use of a local staging area for Microsoft SQL Server log backups. There is no requirement or benefit to joining vSnap servers to an Active Directory domain if you use IBM Storage Protect Plus versions 10.1.6 and later.

Before you begin

You might have to configure the Domain Name System (DNS) server so that the domain controller is available to the network and can be associated with the primary or secondary host.

Procedure

To add an Active Directory for backup and restore operations, complete the following steps:
  1. In the navigation panel, click System Configuration > Storage > vSnap servers.
  2. Select the vSnap server that you want to configure, and then click Manage.
  3. Open the Active Directory tab.
  4. Enter the domain name of the Active Directory, along with the user name and password for the Active Directory administrator as shown in the following figure.
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  5. Click Join.