Implementing disaster recovery for HP Integrity Virtual Machines with Metrocluster and Continentalclusters on HP-UX 11i
Table Of Contents
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Audience
- Configuring Integrity Virtual Machines as packages in HP Metrocluster
- Verifying failover of Metrocluster packages across data centers
- Troubleshooting Metrocluster VM problems
- Application startup and monitoring
- Configuring Integrity Virtual Machines as packages in HP Continentalclusters
- Overview
- Software requirements for HP VMs in Continentalclusters
- Configuring HP VM packages in Continentalclusters
- Creating VM switches in all nodes of the primary cluster
- Configuring replicated storage for VM in Continentalclusters
- Installing the operating system on the virtual machine
- Testing the virtual guest OS in all nodes of the primary cluster
- Creating VM switches in all nodes of the recovery cluster
- Preparing the replicated storage for use in the recovery cluster
- Creating the virtual machine in all nodes of the recovery cluster
- Testing the virtual guest OS in all nodes of the recovery cluster
- Resynchronizing the replicated storage
- Packaging the HP VM in the primary cluster and the recovery cluster
- Creating a Continentalclusters package
- Creating a Continentalclusters configuration with the VM packages
- Running the Continentalclusters monitoring daemon in the recovery cluster
- Recovering to the recovery cluster
- Related documentation
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- For more information
- Call to action
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the primary storage is replicated to the secondary storage through these Continuous Access links. See
Figure 3 for a pictorial representation of this setup.
Figure 3. Configuring a VM into a package in Continentalclusters
Complete the following steps to deploy an HP VM guest for disaster recovery in a Continentalclusters.
1. Create VM switches in all nodes of the primary cluster.
2. Configure replicated storage for VM in Continentalclusters.
3. Create the virtual storage over the replicated storage.
4. Create the virtual machine in all nodes of the primary cluster.
5. Install the operating system on the virtual machine.
6. Test the virtual guest OS in all nodes of the primary cluster.