Parent topic: High Availability Installation
High Availability Installation

Configuring the Nodes

The following procedures assume that your storage is already provisioned and available.

Setting up Node 1

  1. Open the Failover Cluster Manager and follow the steps below:
    1. Move all resources to Node 1.
    2. Confirm that the mysql volume is not in maintenance mode.
    3. Confirm that the orchestrator shared volume is in maintenance mode
  2. Open the following folder: 
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Aspera\Common\mysql_x64\Data
    Rename this file to the following:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Aspera\Common\mysql_x64\Data.bak
  3. Create a new empty folder with the following name: 
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Aspera\Common\mysql_x64\Data
  4. Open the following folder: 
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspera\Orchestrator\www\var
    Rename this file to the following:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspera\Orchestrator\www\var.bak
  5. Create a new empty folder with the following name: 
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspera\Orchestrator\www\var
  6. Open the Computer Management panel and follow the steps below:
    1. Open Storage > Disk Management from the left pane.
    2. Right-click the data partition icon for the mysql volume (NTFS-formatted) and click Change Drive Letters and Paths.
    3. In the dialog, click Add.
      The Add Drive Letter or Path dialog appears.
    4. Select the Mount in the following empty NTFS folder option.
    5. Click Browse and select the following empty directory: 
      C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Aspera\Common\mysql_x64\Data
    6. Click OK, then click OK again.
    7. Right-click the data partition icon for the orchestrator shared volume (CSVFS-formatted) and click Change Drive Letters and Paths.
    8. Click Add.
      The Add Drive Letter or Path dialog appears.
    9. Select the Mount in the following empty NTFS folder option.
    10. Click Browse and select the following empty directory: 
      C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspera\Orchestrator\www\var
    11. Click OK, then click OK again.
  7. Open the following folder: 
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspera\Orchestrator\www\var.bak

    Copy the contents of this file into the following folder:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspera\Orchestrator\www\var
  8. Open the following folder: 
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Aspera\Common\mysql_x64\Data.bak

    Copy the contents of this file into the following folder:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Aspera\Common\mysql_x64\Data
  9. Open the Failover Cluster Manager and follow the steps below:
    1. Take the orchestrator shared volume out of maintenance mode.
    2. Move all resources to node2.
    3. Put the orchestrator shared volume in maintenance mode.

Setting up Node 2

The following steps expose Node 2 to the configuration for Node 1.

  1. Delete the contents of the following folder. 
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Aspera\Common\mysql_x64\Data
    This folder should now be empty.
  2. Delete the contents of the following folder. 
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspera\Orchestrator\www\var
    This folder should now be empty.
  3. Open the Computer Management panel and follow the steps below:
    1. Open Storage > Disk Management from the left pane.
    2. Right-click the data partition icon for the mysql volume (NTFS-formatted) and click Change Drive Letters and Paths.
    3. In the dialog, click Add.
      The Add Drive Letter or Path dialog appears.
    4. Select the Mount in the following empty NTFS folder option.
    5. Click Browse and select the following empty directory: 
      C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Aspera\Common\mysql_x64\Data
    6. Click OK, then click OK again.
    7. Right-click the data partition icon for the orchestrator shared volume (CSVFS-formatted) and click Change Drive Letters and Paths.
    8. Click Add.
      The Add Drive Letter or Path dialog appears.
    9. Select the Mount in the following empty NTFS folder option.
    10. Click Browse and select the following empty directory: 
      C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspera\Orchestrator\www\var
    11. Click OK, then click OK again.
  4. Open the Failover Cluster Manager and take the orchestrator shared volume out of maintenance mode.
Parent topic: High Availability Installation