HP XP Cluster Extension Software Administrator Guide

Contents
1 XP Cluster Extension features........................................................................6
Integration into cluster software...................................................................................................6
Enhanced disaster tolerance......................................................................................................6
Automated monitoring and redirecting of Continuous Access pairs..................................................6
Rolling disaster protection..........................................................................................................6
Command-line interface (CLI).....................................................................................................6
Fast Failback using Continuous Access........................................................................................7
XP Cluster Extension configurations.............................................................................................7
One-to-one configurations.....................................................................................................7
Consolidated-site configuration..............................................................................................8
Supported Continuous Access configurations and fence levels....................................................8
XP Cluster Extension server configurations...............................................................................9
Planning for XP Cluster Extension................................................................................................9
Before configuring XP Cluster Extension resources.....................................................................9
Cluster setup considerations..................................................................................................9
Node Majority quorum clusters (MSFC)..............................................................................9
Setting up RAID Manager.....................................................................................................9
Creating RAID Manager command devices......................................................................10
Configuring RAID Manager command devices..................................................................10
In-band and out-of-band communication......................................................................10
Command device authentication.................................................................................10
Creating RAID Manager instances..................................................................................10
Creating RAID Manager device/copy groups...................................................................11
Network considerations.................................................................................................11
Starting and stopping the RAID Manager instances...........................................................11
Test takeover function.....................................................................................................11
2 Configuring XP Cluster Extension................................................................12
Integrating XP Cluster Extension with MSFC................................................................................12
Configuring XP Cluster Extension..............................................................................................12
Starting the XP Cluster Extension configuration tool.................................................................12
Defining XP Cluster Extension configuration information using the GUI......................................13
Defining XP Cluster Extension configuration information using the CLI........................................15
Importing and exporting configuration information.................................................................16
Exporting configuration settings using the GUI..................................................................16
Exporting configuration settings using the CLI....................................................................16
Importing configuration settings using the GUI..................................................................16
Importing configuration settings using the CLI....................................................................16
Adding an XP Cluster Extension resource...................................................................................17
Adding XP Cluster Extension resource using the Failover Cluster Management GUI (Windows
Server 2008/2008 R2/2012).............................................................................................17
Adding XP Cluster Extension resource using the Microsoft CLI cluster commands.........................17
Changing a XP Cluster Extension resource name.........................................................................18
Changing XP Cluster Extension resource name (Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012)............18
Configuring XP Cluster Extension resources................................................................................18
Setting Microsoft cluster-specific resource and service or application properties..........................19
Setting XP Cluster Extension-specific resource properties..........................................................21
Setting XP Cluster Extension resource properties using the GUI (Windows Server 2008/2008
R2/2012, Server Core, and Hyper-V Server).....................................................................21
Using Failover Cluster Management to set resource properties (Windows Server 2008/2008
R2/2012)................................................................................................................22
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