Continentalclusters Version A.08.00 Release Notes, April2011 (5900-1485)

NOTE: The DR rehearsal feature is not supported in a 3DC environment when the
complex workloads are configured using Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture
(SADTA).
Features Introduced in A.08.00
Continentalclusters version A.08.00 supports the following features:
• Support for HP Serviceguard A.11.19 and A.11.20
• “Support for IPv6 Protocol” (page 11)
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• “Enhanced Security Infrastructure” (page 11)
• “Support for Modular Packages” (page 12)
• “Support for Modular CFS Packages” (page 12)
• “Support for Complex Workloads using Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture
(SADTA)” (page 12)
• “Support for Oracle RAC ASM using SADTA” (page 13)
• “Support for Oracle 11gR2 as Single Instance and as RAC” (page 13)
• “Support for Configuring Package Dependencies for Failover Recovery Packages”
(page 14)
• “Support for HPVM Packages in Continentalclusters” (page 14)
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 2 of the
Designing Disaster Recovery HA Clusters Using Metrocluster and Continentalclusters
guide available at: www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs.
Continentalclusters 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 with Continuous Access for P9000
and XP, Metrocluster Continuous Access EVA, and Metrocluster with EMC 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. Failover of a specific package occurs in
one direction from the primary cluster to the recovery cluster. Each data center can
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