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

Setting up replication..............................................................................................................36
Setting up the complex workload redundantly in Metrocluster.......................................................36
Configuring the storage device for the complex workload at the source disk site.........................37
Configuring the storage device using SG SMS CFS or CVM................................................37
Configuring the storage device using Veritas CVM.............................................................38
Configuring the storage device using SLVM......................................................................39
Configuring the complex workload stack at the source disk site................................................39
Configuring complex workload packages to use SG SMS CVM or Veritas CVM....................40
Configuring complex workload packages to use SLVM.......................................................40
Halting the complex workload at the source disk site..............................................................40
Preparing the replicated disk at the target disk site.................................................................40
Configuring the storage device for complex workload at the target disk site...............................40
Configuring the storage device using CFS or SG SMS CVM................................................40
Configuring the storage device using Veritas CVM.............................................................41
Configuring the storage device using SLVM .....................................................................41
Configure the identical complex workload stack at the recovery site..........................................42
Halting the complex workload on the recovery site.................................................................42
Configuring the Site Controller package for the complex workload................................................42
Configuring the Site Controller package using Serviceguard Manager......................................42
Configuring Site Controller package using command line interface...........................................47
Configuring an empty site controller package...................................................................47
Configuring the Site Safety Latch dependencies for a complex workload..............................48
Modifying Site Controller to manage complex workload....................................................49
Configuring the Metrocluster device group monitor as a service in the Site Controller
package......................................................................................................................49
Starting the complex workload in the Metrocluster..................................................................49
4 Metrocluster features.................................................................................51
Data replication storage failover preview...................................................................................51
Cluster verification..................................................................................................................51
Rolling upgrade for Metrocluster...............................................................................................54
Live Application Detach ..........................................................................................................54
HP vPars and HP Integrity VM..................................................................................................54
Remote array RAID manager instance.......................................................................................55
Using the P9000 or XP external storage feature (Remote Command Device)..............................55
Using extended SAN..........................................................................................................55
Configuring a remote array RAID Manager instance...............................................................56
Configuring the command device to manage the remote P9000 or XP arrays........................57
Configuring a remote array RAID Manager instance..........................................................58
Configuring the remote array RAID Manager instance for automatic startup..........................59
Restrictions...................................................................................................................60
5 Using XP or P9000 features in a Metrocluster Environment.............................61
Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP and thin provisioning volumes.....................61
HP storage works smart tiers....................................................................................................61
6 Understanding failover/failback scenarios...................................................62
Failover/failback scenarios in a Metrocluster package ................................................................62
Complex workload failover/failback scenarios...........................................................................65
Site failover.......................................................................................................................65
Node failure and rejoining the cluster...................................................................................66
Network partitions across sites.............................................................................................66
Disk array and SAN failure.................................................................................................67
Replication link failure........................................................................................................67
Site Controller package failure.............................................................................................67
Site failure........................................................................................................................67
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