Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA A.05.01

Cluster Node Maintenance.................................................................................................61
Maintaining the site...........................................................................................................62
Moving the Site Controller package to a node at the local site.................................................62
Maintaining Site Controller package....................................................................................62
Deleting the Site Controller package.....................................................................................63
Starting a complex workload...............................................................................................63
Shutting down a complex workload......................................................................................64
Moving a complex workload to the remote site......................................................................64
Restarting a failed Site Controller package............................................................................64
Administering Metrocluster with Serviceguard manager...............................................................64
Rolling upgrade......................................................................................................................65
Upgrading Metrocluster replication software..........................................................................66
Upgrading Metrocluster with SADTA configured.....................................................................66
Limitations of the rolling upgrade for Metrocluster...................................................................68
Upgrading replication management software........................................................................68
Upgrading the HP-UX WBEM Services for Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA..............68
Upgrading the Site Controller package......................................................................................68
7 Troubleshooting........................................................................................69
Troubleshooting Metrocluster....................................................................................................69
Metrocluster log.................................................................................................................69
HP P6000/EVA storage system log......................................................................................69
Troubleshooting Metrocluster SADTA.........................................................................................69
Logs and files....................................................................................................................69
Cleaning the site to restart the Site Controller package............................................................69
Identifying and cleaning MNP stack packages that are halted.................................................70
Understanding Site Controller package logs..........................................................................71
A Checklist and worksheet for configuring a Metrocluster with continuous EVA....77
Disaster Recovery Checklist......................................................................................................77
Cluster Configuration Worksheet...............................................................................................77
Package Configuration Worksheet............................................................................................78
Legacy Package Configuration Worksheet..................................................................................79
Package Configuration File Data..........................................................................................79
Package Control Script Worksheet........................................................................................79
EVA Configuration Checklist.....................................................................................................79
Worksheet for configuring SADTA in your environment.................................................................80
Metrocluster Site Configuration............................................................................................80
Replication Configuration....................................................................................................80
CRS Sub-cluster Configuration – using CFS............................................................................81
B Package attributes for Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA......................84
C smiseva.conf file......................................................................................86
D mceva.conf file........................................................................................87
E Identifying special device file name for Vdisk in DR group .............................89
Using secure path V3.0D or V3.0E...........................................................................................89
Using secure path v3.0F..........................................................................................................89
Using PVlinks.........................................................................................................................90
F Legacy packages......................................................................................92
Configuring legacy Metrocluster package..................................................................................92
Migrating legacy to modular packages.....................................................................................94
Configuring storage devices for complex workload.....................................................................95
Configuring the storage device for the complex workload at the source disk site using SG SMS
CFS or CVM ....................................................................................................................95
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