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>>This video will demonstrate
how to set up SolarWinds High Availability solution
for the Orion platform.
High Availability or HA
works with all Orion platform products
on Orion version 2016.2 and above.
High Availability is used to prevent data loss
by pooling the servers where the Orion platform is installed
with the secondary server.
If your primary server goes down,
the secondary server will take over important services,
such as polling, alerting, and the Orion web interface.
To start, let's discuss HA prerequisites.
Both primary and secondary servers
must reside on the same IP subnet.
One additional IP address on the same subnet
must be used as the Virtual IP.
Both servers need to be running
Windows Server 2008 R2 or newer.
OS versions and sizes do not need to match
between the primary and secondary servers.
Both servers may be joined to a Windows domain.
High Availability supports the following configurations
of primary and secondary servers.
Physical to physical, physical to virtual,
virtual to virtual, and virtual to physical.
You must also have a separate server
running SQL Server 2008 or newer.
This server does not need to reside
on the same subnet as the primary
and secondary Orion platform servers.
Any Microsoft SQL edition may be used,
including SQL Express, and a SQL server may be clustered.
To install HA, start from the server
that would be the backup, and download the HA installer
from within the Orion platform web interface.
Next, execute the installation by double-clicking
on the SolarWinds Orion installer file,
after it's been downloaded
or copied to the secondary server.
Enter the IP Address of the fully qualified domain name
of your main Orion server, along with the credentials
used to log in to the Orion web interface, and click next.
For the following step,
select the additional server role you wish to install.
Since my main Orion server is already highly available,
let's go ahead and back up
the additional poling engine instead.
Select Backup server for additional
polling engine protection, and click next.
Once the installation is complete,
the configuration wizard will start automatically.
When prompted, enter the information
for the same SQL instance and SQL database
that was chosen for the primary server
installed in the Orion platform.
Once the installation is complete,
the next step is to start the pool creation process.
HA will open the browser on the machine
where it was installed and take you
to the web interface of the Orion platform
running on the main server.
On the High Availability deployment summary screen,
you will see your newly added HA backup.
Click on the High Availability pool button
to proceed with the pool creation process.
Next, name the pool and define a shared virtual IP Address,
or VIP, to be used by the pool for receiving syslog,
SNMP traps, and NetFlow data.
The VIP is also used for accessing
the Orion web interface for a main polar pool.
To do this, enter an available IP Address
on the same subnet as both pool members
of the pool that will be used for the VIP.
If the IP Address entered is invalid,
not on the same subnet,
or it's already being used on the network,
you will receive an error.
Correct the IP Address and proceed.
Once you are satisfied with the configuration,
click create pool.
On the next screen you will see all of your pools,
the main server, and the backup.
After completing a High Availability installation,
it's always a good idea to force a failover,
just to make sure everything is working correctly.
Click on the failover test button and wait for the results.
This screen shows that the test was successful.
For more information regarding HA
and other SolarWinds products, go to support.solarwinds.com.