Continentalclusters Version A.05.01 Release Notes, December 2005 (T2346-90007)

Continentalclusters Version A.05.01 Release Notes
What’s In this Version
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What’s In this Version
Continentalclusters employs semi-automatic failover of Serviceguard
packages from one cluster to another following a cluster event that
indicates serious disruption of service on one of the clusters. The product
consists of a set of configuration, management commands, and a set of
daemons that monitors and sends notification of cluster events
The A.05.01 version contains the following enhancements:
• Support for Oracle 10g RAC Database Instance Recovery (Oracle
version 10.1.0.4 or later required.)
• Support for Asynchronous Mode using EMC/SRDF (Requires
Metrocluster with EMC SRDF version A.05.00, which is a separately
purchased product.)
• Support for HP StorageWorks XP12000 CA Journal 1:1 Data
Replication (Requires Metrocluster CA XP version A.05.00, which is
a separately purchased product.)
Continentalclusters Product Features
The Continentalclusters product has the following basic features:
• Continentalclusters works with any type of data replication. A set of
guidelines for integrating your data replication technology can be
found in chapter 4 of the Designing Disaster Tolerant High
Availability Clusters user’s guide on:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/ha.html
Continentalcluster provides a pre-integrated data replication
solution using HP StorageWorks Continuous Access XP, Continuous
Access EVA or EMC/SRDF with the separately purchased products
Metrocluster CA XP, Metrocluster Continuous Access EVA, and
Metrocluster with ECM SRDF. An alternative to using the
pre-integrated data replication solution a customer-selected data
replication solution can be chosen by following the integration
guidelines.
• A recovery pair in a Continentalclusters consists of one primary
cluster and one recovery cluster. One or more recovery pairs can be
configured in a continental cluster with a common recovery cluster.