Exchange Server 2010 Data center switch over trouble-shooter

Exchange Server 2010 Data center switch over trouble-shooter

Author,

Arun Chaudhary

MCP, MCTS, MCITP

(Exchange 2010)

Exchange Administrator, Book writer,

 Freelancer trainer of Exchange Server

Mail me: arunkalagarh@gmail.com

Visit me: http://exchangeby-arun.blogspot.com

About me: I am working as an Exchange Administrator & also a freelancer trainer of Exchange & other Microsoft Servers; I have 6+ years experience in Microsoft servers. I have written many articles on different – different topics & given Exchange Server training for more than 250 Indian & Inter national clients.

 

Exchange 2010 has a very good feature that called Data centre Activation Coordination (DAC) mode, which is designed to prevent split brain at the database level during switchback procedures that are being performed after a data centre switchover. The major advantage of enabling the DAC feature is that you can use built-in recovery cmdlets to perform the data centre switchover and switchback.

But before going to run the built-in cmdlets you should have to understand properly these factors.

• Are all Exchange Servers available in Primary data centre?
• Is network connectivity available between the primary and remote data centre?
• Is Exchange deployed in a topology with a single Active Directory site or multiple sites?

When you got the required information regarding above points, now you can plan what command will be run & where will be run.

Now Administrator can run the built-in cmdlets but he required some more information like;

·        How do I verify that stop-databaseavailability group was successful?

·        How do I verify that restore-databaseavailabilitygroup performed the correct steps?

·        When is it appropriate to run start-databaseavailailitygroup?

Each of these required a different set of verification steps, before you start.

Data centre Switchover Tool: this is a very good tool to perform the data centre switch over, it’s a kiosk-based power point application that allows administrators to work on the following steps.

• What commands to run and where to run them
• How to verify the commands completed successfully.
• How to walk through a Data centre Switchover from the Mailbox server / database availability group perspective.

Thanks

                             Arun Chaudhary

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1.      “The complete guide from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010 migration”

2.      “Open Source Email Servers”

Download this tool from here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Exchange-2010-Datacenter-09a81fc6