HP Serviceguard Extended Distance Cluster for Linux A.11.20.10 Deployment Guide, December 2012

Preface

This guide introduces the concept of Serviceguard Extended Distance Clusters (serviceguard-xdc).

It describes how to configure and manage HP Serviceguard Extended Distance Clusters for Linux

and the associated Software RAID functionality.

In addition, this guide includes information on a variety of Hewlett-Packard (HP) high availability

cluster technologies that provide disaster recovery for your mission-critical applications. Serviceguard

has supported disaster recovery clusters on HP-UX for several years now while it is relatively new

on Linux. Features of those disaster recovery HP-UX systems may be used as an example through

this document.

Intended Audience

It is assumed that you are familiar with the following topics:

• HP Serviceguard configurations

• Basic RAID concepts

Related Publications

For additional information, see the following documents at

http://www.hp.com/go/linux-serviceguard-docs:

• Managing HP Serviceguard A.11.20.10 for Linux

• HP Serviceguard A.11.20.10 for Linux Release Notes

• HP Serviceguard Quorum Server Version A.04.00 Release Notes

• HP Serviceguard for Linux Version A.11.20.10 Deployment Guide

For information about HP’s High Availability, see:

http://www.hp.com/go/ha

Problem Reporting

If you have any problems with the software or hardware products, please contact your HP support

representative.