HP 3PAR Cluster Extension Software Administrator Guide (5697-1429, March 2012)

3 Configuring HP 3PAR Cluster Extension for Linux...........................................45
HP HP 3PAR Cluster Extension for Linux: Sample configuration......................................................45
Configuring HP 3PAR Cluster Extension.....................................................................................47
Defining HP 3PAR configuration information using the CLI.......................................................47
Importing and exporting configuration information.................................................................47
Importing configuration settings using the CLI....................................................................47
Exporting configuration settings using the CLI....................................................................47
Configuring HP 3PAR Cluster Extension with RHCS......................................................................47
Configuration overview.......................................................................................................47
Creating an RHCS HP 3PAR Cluster Extension shared resource................................................48
Using Conga to create a shared resource.........................................................................48
Using system-config-cluster to create a shared resource.......................................................48
Creating an RHCS service using the HP 3PAR Cluster Extension shared resource........................49
Configuration overview..................................................................................................49
Using Conga to create a service.....................................................................................49
Using system-config-cluster to create a service...................................................................51
Creating the HP 3PAR Cluster Extension configuration file...................................................52
Testing the service configuration......................................................................................53
Managing HP 3PAR Cluster Extension services (RHCS)............................................................54
Starting an RHCS service...............................................................................................54
Stopping or disabling an RHCS service............................................................................54
Configuring HP 3PAR Cluster Extension with SLE HA...................................................................54
Configuration overview.......................................................................................................54
Creating and configuring a HP 3PAR Cluster Extension resource..............................................54
Creating the HP 3PAR Cluster Extension configuration file...................................................55
Creating a HP 3PAR Cluster Extension resource for Pacemaker............................................55
Testing the configuration................................................................................................57
Managing HP 3PAR Cluster Extension services (SLE HA)..........................................................57
Rescanning multipath devices...................................................................................................57
Configuring the rescan script...............................................................................................58
Finding the user-friendly name of a multipath device...............................................................58
Timing considerations..............................................................................................................59
4 User configuration file and HP 3PAR Cluster Extension objects........................60
User configuration file.............................................................................................................60
File structure......................................................................................................................60
Specifying object values.....................................................................................................61
COMMON objects.................................................................................................................62
APPLICATION objects..............................................................................................................62
Sample configuration file.........................................................................................................67
5 CLI commands and utilities........................................................................68
CLI commands.......................................................................................................................68
clx3PARrun.......................................................................................................................68
Configuring the CLI.................................................................................................................69
Creating the HP 3PAR Remote Copy environment...................................................................69
Configuring the HP 3PAR storage system...............................................................................69
Installing HP 3PAR InForm Command Line Interface (CLI).........................................................70
Creating and configuring the user configuration file................................................................70
Timing considerations.........................................................................................................70
Restrictions for customized implementations...........................................................................71
Pre-execution and post-execution programs................................................................................71
Pre-execution return codes...................................................................................................72
Post-execution return codes..................................................................................................72
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