HP XP Cluster Extension Software Administrator Guide

Using the resource configuration tool to set resource properties (Server Core and Hyper-V
Server)....................................................................................................................22
Configuring RAID Manager instance numbers for RAID Manager service.........................23
Configuring the RAID Manager device/copy group details............................................23
Configuring RAID Manager device/copy group advanced properties..............................24
Configuring server data center assignments.................................................................26
Changing failover and failback behavior.....................................................................26
Activating the pair/resync monitor..............................................................................26
Configuring takeover actions......................................................................................27
Configuring Rolling Disaster Protection .......................................................................28
Setting XP Cluster Extension resource properties using the MMC..........................................28
Setting XP Cluster Extension resource properties using the CLI.............................................28
Setting XP Cluster Extension properties using a UCF...........................................................29
Adding dependencies on XP Cluster Extension resource...............................................................30
Adding dependencies using Failover Cluster Management (Windows Server 2008/2008
R2/2012).........................................................................................................................30
Adding dependencies using the CLI.....................................................................................31
Disaster-tolerant configuration example using a file share.............................................................31
Managing XP Cluster Extension resources..................................................................................34
Bringing a resource online..................................................................................................34
Taking a resource offline.....................................................................................................35
Deleting a resource............................................................................................................35
Using Hyper-V Live Migration with XP Cluster Extension................................................................35
Timing considerations for MSFC...............................................................................................36
Bouncing service or application................................................................................................37
Administration........................................................................................................................37
Remote management of XP Cluster Extension resources in a cluster (Windows Server 2008/2008
R2/2012).........................................................................................................................37
System resources................................................................................................................38
Logs.................................................................................................................................38
Hyper-V Live Migration log entries...................................................................................38
3 XP Cluster Extension and CLI......................................................................39
Configuring the CLI.................................................................................................................39
Creating the Continuous Access environment and configuring RAID Manager............................39
Timing considerations.........................................................................................................39
Restrictions for customized XP Cluster Extension implementations..............................................40
Creating and configuring the user configuration file................................................................40
CLI commands.......................................................................................................................41
clxrun...............................................................................................................................41
clxchkmon.........................................................................................................................42
Displaying resources......................................................................................................42
Removing resources.......................................................................................................42
Stopping the pair/resync monitor....................................................................................42
4 XP Cluster Extension recovery procedures....................................................45
XP disk pair states..................................................................................................................45
Recovery sequence.................................................................................................................46
5 User configuration file and XP Cluster Extension objects.................................47
User configuration file location.................................................................................................47
File structure......................................................................................................................47
Specifying object values.....................................................................................................47
COMMON objects.................................................................................................................49
APPLICATION objects .............................................................................................................50
APPLICATION objects.........................................................................................................50
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