Administrator's Guide

Installing HP 3PAR InForm Command Line Interface (CLI)
HP 3PAR Cluster Extension communicates with the HP 3PAR storage system using the HP 3PAR
InForm Command Line Interface (CLI). Ensure that you install the supported version of HP 3PAR
Command Line Interface (CLI) on a host where clx3PARrun can be used.
Creating and configuring the user configuration file
The CLI expects as an argument the name configured as the APPLICATION tag value.
The following is an example of a customized user configuration file when using clx3PARrun:
#
COMMON
#LogLevel info # error|info default: error (optional)
# The APPLICATION part defines failover information for the application
# specified as value of the APPLICATION tag.
# For example, the command - clx3PARrun CLXTEST1 — will use the below
# settings to check and allow access to the disk set specified as volume
# Group CLX_VGTEST1. Example includes similar kind of settings for another
# cluster group CLXTEST2.
# Necessary object when clx3PARrun is used are:
# APPLICATION, DC_A_InServStorage_SerNum, DC_B_InServStorage_SerNum,
# RCVolumeGroupA, RCVolumeGroupB, DC_A_Hosts and DC_B_Hosts
#APPLICATION CLXTEST1 # package/service/cluster group test_application
#DC_A_InServStorage_SerNum 1302871 # 1302871 is the data center A HP 3PAR
array serial number
#DC_B_InServStorage_SerNum 1302835 # 1302835 is the data center B HP 3PAR
array serial number
#RCVolumeGroupA CLX_VGTEST1 # CLX_VGTEST1 is the data center A
HP 3PAR Remote Copy volume group name
#RCVolumeGroupB CLX_VGTEST1.r2835 # CLX_VGTEST1.r2835 is the data
center B HP 3PAR Remote Copy volume group name
#DC_A_Hosts clx_node1 clx_node2 # clx_node1, clx_node2 are data centre A cluster
nodes
#DC_B_Hosts clx_node3 clx_node4 # clx_node3, clx_node4 are data centre B cluster
nodes
#ApplicationStartup fastfailback # values: fastfailback | resyncwait
#UseNonCurrentDataOk yes # values: yes | no #Default value is yes which causes the
failover operation to succeed at the destination site when the data at the destination
site might not be current. On setting the value to No the resource will not come
online at the destination site since the data might not be current.
#APPLICATION CLXTEST2 # package/service/cluster group test_application
#DC_A_InServStorage_SerNum 1302871 # 1302871 is the data center A HP 3PAR
array serial number
#DC_B_InServStorage_SerNum 1302835 # 1302835 is the data center B HP 3PAR
array serial number
#RCVolumeGroupA CLX_VGTEST2 # CLX_VGTEST2 is the data center A
HP 3PAR Remote Copy volume group name
#RCVolumeGroupB CLX_VGTEST2.r2835 # CLX_VGTEST2.r2835 is the data
center B HP 3PAR Remote Copy volume group name
#DC_A_Hosts clx_node1 clx_node2 # clx_node1, clx_node2 are data centre A cluster
nodes
#DC_B_Hosts clx_node3 clx_node4 # clx_node3, clx_node4 are data centre B cluster
nodes
#ApplicationStartup resyncwait # values: fastfailback | resyncwait
#UseNonCurrentDataOk yes # values: yes | no #Default value is yes which causes the
failover operation to succeed at the destination site when the data at the
destination site might not be current. On setting the value to No the resource
will not come online at the destination site since the data might not be current.
Timing considerations
HP 3PAR Cluster Extension gives priority to storage system operations over cluster software
operations. If HP 3PAR Cluster Extension is invoked at the point when virtual volumes of Remote
Copy volume group are in resynchronization or full synchronization operation or is gathering
information about the remote storage system, it waits until the requested status information is
reported. This ensures the priority of data integrity over cluster software failover behavior. Because
the failover timing depends on the configuration of your Remote Copy environment, load on the
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