I’m preparing for a DR drill run test in the coming week and I would like to know if someone could

validate our datacenter switchover procedure.
I would like to keep both production site DR Site run at the same time independently during DR drill

run.
Here’s an overview of our environment…

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Production Site (vHQ-site)
VDC1-Domain Controller and DNS Server, witness Server
Email01 -Exchange Server 2010sp1 (Hub, CAS and Mailbox Roles)

DR Site (vBackup-site)
VDC2-Domain Controller and DNS Server, witness Server
Email02 -Exchange Server 2010sp1 (Hub, CAS and Mailbox Roles)

DAG cluster name = Email-HA
DAG with DAC enabled
Email01 and Eamil02 are DAG Member
All mailbox started with DAG replication
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**DR Drill run Procedure **

Production site
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VDC1 – up and running
Email01 – up and running

simulate the Datacenter failures
at DR site
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1.shutdown VDC2, email02
2.take snapshot for VDC2, Email02
3.isolate the DR site Network from production
4.startup VDC2, email02
5.Sart Datacenter switchover
5a. Check DAG Replication Status OK then
Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Identity * | select name, status | sort Status | ft -auto
Test1 DB\Email01servicesDown
Test1 DB\Email02failed (Remark: should be DisconnectedAndHealthly)
5b.Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup |fl
5c.Stop-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Identity Email-HA -Mailboxserver email01 -Configurationonly
5d Net stop Clussvc
5e Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Identity Email-HA -ActiveDirectorySite vBackup-site
5f Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup Email-HA -status |fl
fail to get info becauase no Operational Servers and Primary Active Manager

Resume DR site
Shutdown VDC2, email02
resume DR site Network to production network
restore the snapshot
Starup VDC2, email02

**** Problems and Question****
The main problems is due step 5f, no Operational Servers and Primary Active Manager cannot be up after shutdown in step 1 for take a snapshot. Therefore I cannot mount any passive database after datacenter switchover.
How can I manually enable the DR site Operational Servers and Primary Active Manager to mount the database in DR site

Cheers!!!

your are Dynamic.

Regards
Raghu
call me.

But when i run Test connection, outlook cannot send test e-mail. There is information: Server don’t use this authentication.
It works when i use port 25 (with TLS) ora port 587 (without authentication).
When I connecto to server by telnet: telnet EX1 587

When I put ehlo I’ve got this answer:

220 EX1.domain.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:09:16 +0100
ehlo
250-EX1.domain.com Hello [10.1.1.203]
250-SIZE 10485760
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-AUTH NTLM LOGIN
250-8BITMIME
250-BINARYMIME
250 CHUNKING

There is no 250-STARTTLS answer, but TLS authentication is checked on default Client receive connector.

If I connect by telnet using port 25:

250-EX1.domain.com Hello [10.1.1.203]
250-SIZE
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-STARTTLS – !!!
250-X-ANONYMOUSTLS
250-AUTH NTLM
250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM
250-8BITMIME
250-BINARYMIME
250-CHUNKING
250-XEXCH50
250-XRDST
250 XSHADOW

There is STARTTLS. So why it doesn’t work on Client EX1? There is some bug after insstaling some rollup?

If i create new receive connector and use the same setting are in default Client Ex1 connector but not use
0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 anf :: ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff noly IP for example 10.1.1.145, TLS works for outlook on computer with IP 10.1.1.145.

I hope you help me solve this issue.

Kind Regards
Tomasz

Muniraj

Great stuff dude, just went through your blogs and it has such a good stuff. Congrats on your MVP. Keep working on such stuffs, it gives so much to the community.

Cheers!
Srikanth