User's Guide

Configuring the Storage Device for the Complex Workload at the Recovery Cluster.........136
Configuring the Identical Complex Workload Stack at the Recovery Cluster....................139
Halting the Complex Workload on the Recovery Cluster..............................................139
Configuring the Site Controller Package in the Recovery Cluster.........................................139
Configuring Site Safety Latch Dependencies....................................................................139
Resuming the Replication to the Recovery Cluster.............................................................139
Configuring Continentalclusters.....................................................................................139
Migrating an Existing Oracle RAC Configuration to use SADTA..............................................139
Configuring the Primary and Recovery Cluster with a Single Site............................................140
Configuring the Site Controller Package in the Primary and Recovery Cluster...........................141
Configuring Oracle RAC Database with ASM in a Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture...........142
Setting Up Replication......................................................................................................144
Configure a primary cluster with a single site.......................................................................144
Configure a recovery cluster with a single site......................................................................144
Installing and Configuring Oracle Clusterware.....................................................................145
Configuring SGeRAC Toolkit Packages for Oracle Clusterware at the primary cluster and the
recovery cluster...........................................................................................................145
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Software....................................................145
Creating the RAC Database with ASM at the Primary cluster.................................................145
Configuring the ASM disk group at the Primary cluster.....................................................145
Configuring SGeRAC Toolkit Packages for the ASM disk group in the Primary cluster...........146
Creating the Oracle RAC Database in the Primary cluster.................................................146
Configuring and Testing the RAC MNP Stack at the Primary cluster....................................146
Halting the RAC Database on the Primary cluster............................................................146
Suspending the replication to the recovery cluster.................................................................147
Configuring the Identical ASM Instance at the Recovery cluster..............................................147
Configuring the Identical RAC Database at the recovery cluster..............................................148
Configuring the Site Controller Package at the primary cluster................................................149
Configuring the Site Safety Latch Dependencies at the primary cluster.....................................149
Configuring the Site Controller Package at the recovery cluster...............................................150
Configuring the Site Safety Latch Dependencies at the recovery cluster....................................150
Database with ASM in the Continentalclusters in the primary cluster.......................................150
Troubleshooting Continentalclusters Version A.08.00.................................................................151
3 Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with
Continuous Access for P9000 and XP..........................................................153
Files for Integrating P9000 or XP Disk Arrays with Serviceguard Clusters......................................153
Overview of Continuous Access P9000 and XP Concepts..........................................................154
PVOLs and SVOLs............................................................................................................154
Device Groups and Fence Levels........................................................................................154
Fence Level of NEVER..................................................................................................155
Fence Level of DATA....................................................................................................155
Fence Level of ASYNC ................................................................................................156
Continuous Access Link Timeout....................................................................................156
Consistency Group......................................................................................................157
Limitations of Asynchronous Mode.................................................................................157
Other Considerations on Asynchronous Mode.................................................................157
RAID Manager Instance....................................................................................................157
Remote Array RAID Manager Instance................................................................................158
Continuous Access Journal Overview..................................................................................159
Journal Volume...........................................................................................................159
Pull-Based Replication..................................................................................................160
Mitigation of Network Problems....................................................................................160
Fence Level.................................................................................................................160
Journal Group............................................................................................................160
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