Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP A.11.00

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Contents

1 Introduction.............................................................................................10

Overview of Continuous Access P9000 and XP concepts.............................................................10

PVOLs and SVOLs..............................................................................................................10

Device groups...................................................................................................................10

Continuous Access Synchronous Replication......................................................................11

Fence level NEVER........................................................................................................11

Fence Level DATA..........................................................................................................11

Continuous Access asynchronous replication..........................................................................11

Continuous Access link timeout.......................................................................................11

Consistency Group........................................................................................................11

Limitations of asynchronous mode....................................................................................12

Continuous Access journal overview.....................................................................................12

Journal volume..............................................................................................................12

Fence level ..................................................................................................................13

Mitigation of network problems.......................................................................................13

Journal group...............................................................................................................14

Continuous Access journal pair state................................................................................14

RAID Manager instance......................................................................................................14

Command Device..............................................................................................................15

Overview of solution for Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP.............................15

Overview of a Metrocluster configuration..............................................................................15

Overview of Metrocluster Device Group Monitor....................................................................16

2 Configuring an application in a Metrocluster environment..............................18

Installing the necessary hardware and software..........................................................................18

Setting up the storage hardware .........................................................................................18

Installing the necessary software..........................................................................................18

Creating the cluster.................................................................................................................18

Site Aware Failover configuration.........................................................................................18

Easy deployment of Metrocluster..........................................................................................19

Setting up the replication.........................................................................................................19

Creating the RAID Manager configuration............................................................................19

Pair creation of Journal Groups.......................................................................................22

Creating Continuous Access Journal Pair..........................................................................22

Notes on the Raid Manager configuration........................................................................23

Configuring automatic Raid Manager startup....................................................................23

Configuring LVM volume group and VxVM disk group.................................................................23

Creating and exporting LVM volume groups using Continuous Access P9000 or XP....................23

Creating VxVM disk groups using Continuous Access P9000 or XP..........................................24

Importing VxVM disk groups at the Remote Site................................................................25

Easy deployment of storage.................................................................................................26

Installing and configuring an application...................................................................................26

Configuring a Metrocluster package .........................................................................................26

Volume monitor configuration..............................................................................................29

Configuring a Metrocluster package using Serviceguard Manager...........................................29

Easy deployment of Metrocluster modular packages...............................................................33

3 Configuring complex workloads using SADTA..............................................35

Creating a Site Aware Metrocluster configuration........................................................................35

Creating a Serviceguard cluster with sites configured..............................................................35

Configuring the Cluster File System (CFS) multi-node package..................................................36

Easy deployment of Site-Aware cluster and CFS cluster using cmdeploycl...................................36

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