Replicator 7.4 - Advanced Installation Guide

Metalogix Replicator Documentation

Metalogix Replicator documentation ships with the Metalogix Replicator distribution. It is also available at the Quest Product Resource Center,
http://documents.quest.com/Metalogix-Replicator

The Metalogix Replicator documentation set consists of the following guides:

Release Notes
The Release Notes document provides an overview of all the new and improved features available in Replicator within the editions.

Product and Concepts Guide
The Product and Concepts Guide provides a high-level overview of Metalogix Replicator and describes new features introduced in this release.

Quick Start Guide
The Quick Start Guide guides you through a basic installation and configuration of Replicator. After completing this guide you will have a working Replicator Network where changes made on one web application are automatically replicated to the other. You will be able to move onto the Evaluation Guide to perform various Metalogix Replicator scenario tests on your environment.

Advanced Installation Guide
The Advanced Installation Guide guides you through installation, uninstall, and upgrading of Metalogix Replicator in various SharePoint farm configurations.

Evaluation Guide
The Evaluation Guide guides you through various Metalogix Replicator scenarios, provided for the purpose of reviewing Replicator within your own SharePoint environment. Prospective Clients are encouraged to use this guide to test Replicator.

Reference Guide
The Reference Guide describes the operations and user interface available to replication administrators through the SharePoint Central Administration and Site Administration pages.

Command-line Reference
The Command-line Reference describes the PowerShell commands you can use to configure and maintain your Replication Network.

Scenario Guides
Scenario Guides describe specific product features and how to implement and configure them for your SharePoint environment.

Introduction

A SharePoint network consists of one or more farms. Each farm is a collection of one or more connected computers. Each farm runs at least one web application. By installing and configuring Metalogix Replicator for SharePoint, you create a Replication Network, which replicates SharePoint content between web applications in your SharePoint environment. You can use Replicator to replicate this content between farms or within the same farm. In order to replicate between farms, you must install Replicator on each farm. This guide will run through various installations, upgrade, and uninstall scenarios based on various farm configurations.

For a basic installation scenario, see the Replicator Quick Start Guide, and for further configuration and evaluation of Replicator see the Replicator Evaluation Guide. Both guides are available here:
http://documents.quest.com/Metalogix-Replicator

Security Certification

All external communications by the Replicator software are Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 compliant.

Common Replication Network Topologies

In the case of each topology demonstrated below, Replicator would need to be installed on each farm for replication to take place.

Planning your Deployment

This section provides an overview on how to plan the deployment of Replicator.

Installing Replicator into your SharePoint Farm

Metalogix Replicator can be installed on any server in your SharePoint farm that is running the SharePoint web application service.

You can install Replicator on more than one server in your farm, but only Enterprise Edition licenses support running multiple Replicator installations at the same time in the same farm.

For every scenario of installation, and on every server/farm where you will be installing Replicator, you will have to download and run the installer. Downloading and running the installer are both detailed in this document in section Downloading and Preparing the Replicator Installer and section Installing Metalogix Replicator, respectively.

There are multiple benefits to running Replicator on more than one server. For a detailed list of these benefits, see the Replicator Product and Concepts Guide.