Configuring Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

After you configure Data Protection for VMware and verify that you created a virtual machine backup suitable for recovery of a single Microsoft Exchange Server database, configure Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server inside the guest virtual machine.

1. Log on to the virtual machine that hosts the Microsoft Exchange database (vm_exc10).
2. Verify that the following packages are installed:
   • Data Protection for VMware recovery agent and license (from the Data Protection for VMware product package)
   • Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server
   • Tivoli® Storage Manager backup-archive client

   You can install the Data Protection for VMware recovery agent, license, and Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client together by using the Data Protection for VMware installation program. To install the packages together, select the following advanced installation option: Install Data Protection for VMware instant restore features only. Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server is installed separately.

3. Configure Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server by using the Tivoli Storage Manager configuration wizard. When you open the Tivoli Storage Manager Node Names page of the wizard, enter the VMware datacenter node name, Exchange Server node name, and VSS requestor node name. If the datacenter node name field is disabled, the Data Protection for VMware recovery agent is not installed correctly.
4. After Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server is configured, verify that the Configuring Recovery Agent rule status indicates Passed.
5. Log on to one of the data mover instances and complete the following steps. These steps must be run from only one instance of a data mover. Do not repeat these steps for all data mover instances.
   1. For the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client that is configured as the VSS requestor node, for example, exc10, give access to the virtual machine backups, for example, file space for vm_exc10 by using the client set access command at the command line.

      You must complete this step because the VSS requestor node accesses the virtual machine backups on behalf of Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server.

      This command is run directly from the datacenter node (datacenter10). If the current data mover options file (dsm.opt) contains an ASNODE entry, create a temporary options file. To create a temporary options file, complete the following steps:

      1. Copy the dsm.opt file to the dsm.setaccess.opt file.
      2. Edit the dsm.setaccess.opt file. For any line that contains ASNODE, delete the line.
      3. Edit the dsm.setaccess.opt file to set the NODENAME option to the following entry:

         NODENAME DC_NODE

         For example:

         DC_NODE = datacenter10

   2. Enter the following command:

      dsmc set access backup -type=VM vm_name vss_requestor_node
       -optfile=dsm.setaccess.opt

dsmc set access backup –type=VM vm_exc01 exc01 –optfile=dsm.setaccess.opt

ANS1148I "Set Access" command successfully completed.

dsmc query access
Node name: datacenter10
Type		Node		User		Path
------	------	------	------
Backup 	exc10 	* 		\VMFULL-vm_exc10\*\*


ANS1148I "Query Access" command completed successfully