Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with EMC SRDF

Shutting down a complex workload......................................................................................66
Moving a complex workload to a remote site........................................................................66
Restarting a failed Site Controller package............................................................................67
Administering Metrocluster with Serviceguard Manager...............................................................67
Rolling upgrade......................................................................................................................68
Upgrading Metrocluster replication software..........................................................................68
Upgrading Metrocluster with SADTA configured.....................................................................68
Limitations of the rolling upgrade for Metrocluster...................................................................70
7 Troubleshooting........................................................................................71
Troubleshooting Metrocluster....................................................................................................71
Metrocluster log.................................................................................................................71
SYMAPI log.......................................................................................................................71
Troubleshooting Metrocluster SADTA.........................................................................................71
Logs and files....................................................................................................................71
Cleaning the site to restart the Site Controller package............................................................71
Identifying and cleaning MNP stack packages that are halted.................................................72
Understanding Site Controller package logs..........................................................................73
8 Support and other resources......................................................................78
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................78
How to contact HP..................................................................................................................78
Registering for software technical support and update service.......................................................78
How to use your software technical support and update service...............................................78
Warranty information.........................................................................................................78
HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................79
Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................79
Related information.................................................................................................................79
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................79
A Checklist and worksheet for configuring Metrocluster with EMC SRDF.............81
Disaster recovery checklist.......................................................................................................81
Cluster configuration worksheet................................................................................................81
Package configuration worksheet..............................................................................................82
Worksheet for configuring SADTA.............................................................................................83
B Package attributes for Metrocluster with EMC SRDF.......................................87
C Sample output of the cmdrprev command....................................................90
D Legacy packages.....................................................................................91
Configuring Serviceguard legacy packages for automatic disaster recovery....................................91
Migrating legacy packages to modular packages using Metrocluster with EMC SRDF A.09.00 or
later......................................................................................................................................93
Configuring storage devices for complex workload.....................................................................94
Configuring the storage device for the complex workload at the source disk site using CFS or SG
SMS CVM .......................................................................................................................94
Configuring the storage device for complex workload at the target disk site using CFS or SG SMS
CVM................................................................................................................................95
Migrating complex workloads using legacy SG SMS CVM/CFS packages to modular packages
with minimal downtime.......................................................................................................96
Upgrading the Site Controller package......................................................................................97
E Configuring Oracle RAC in SADTA.............................................................98
Overview of Metrocluster for RAC.............................................................................................98
Configuring Oracle RAC database in a SADTA..........................................................................99
Setting up SADTA..............................................................................................................99
Pre-requisites for configuring SADTA..............................................................................100
Sample configuration.......................................................................................................101
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