Hello,
we need to power off all Exchange servers (Multi Role servers and usage of external load balancer) of one site and run the services from the second site. This temporary power off (few hours) is required to move hardware to new racks so this is not no need to apply DR procedures.
I would appreciate if you could provide your remarks on the raw procedure below and if you have recommendations in case you have already performed something similar.
1) Do not apply any DR procedure for Exchange (which implies evicting nodes from cluster and using AlternateWitness)
2) Move current File Share Witness hosted on Exchange servers of this site to another server before the HW move
3) Before the hardware move, move the active databases and Virtual IP Load Balancer CAS Array to second site.
4) the day of the hardware move, put the servers in this site in DAG maintenance mode and suspend DB replication then shutdown those servers which will not host any FSW at that time (we will apply the DAG maintenance procedure with script StartDAGServerMaintenance.ps1 and move also Cluster Group to node on second site).
5) After the move, power on the JL serves, check Exchange config and re-sync the databases.
6) Move back the FSW to Exchange servers of the first site (or find another server).
7) Move back the active databases and VIP Load Balancer CAS Array to Exchange servers of first site to go to normal situation.
Many thanks in advance
Kind regards
Mix
we need to power off all Exchange servers (Multi Role servers and usage of external load balancer) of one site and run the services from the second site. This temporary power off (few hours) is required to move hardware to new racks so this is not no need to apply DR procedures.
I would appreciate if you could provide your remarks on the raw procedure below and if you have recommendations in case you have already performed something similar.
1) Do not apply any DR procedure for Exchange (which implies evicting nodes from cluster and using AlternateWitness)
2) Move current File Share Witness hosted on Exchange servers of this site to another server before the HW move
3) Before the hardware move, move the active databases and Virtual IP Load Balancer CAS Array to second site.
4) the day of the hardware move, put the servers in this site in DAG maintenance mode and suspend DB replication then shutdown those servers which will not host any FSW at that time (we will apply the DAG maintenance procedure with script StartDAGServerMaintenance.ps1 and move also Cluster Group to node on second site).
5) After the move, power on the JL serves, check Exchange config and re-sync the databases.
6) Move back the FSW to Exchange servers of the first site (or find another server).
7) Move back the active databases and VIP Load Balancer CAS Array to Exchange servers of first site to go to normal situation.
Many thanks in advance
Kind regards
Mix