Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Overview of HP 3PAR concepts..................................................................................................7
Remote Copy pairs .............................................................................................................7
Remote Copy volume groups ................................................................................................7
Remote Copy and thin provisioning........................................................................................7
Remote Copy volume group modes........................................................................................7
Remote Copy target definitions .............................................................................................8
Virtual domains...................................................................................................................8
HP 3PAR user privileges........................................................................................................8
Overview of solution for Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy .......................................................8
Infrastructure requirements.....................................................................................................8
Overview of a Metrocluster configuration..............................................................................10
2 Configuring an application in a Metrocluster environment .............................11
Installing the necessary software...............................................................................................11
Creating the cluster.................................................................................................................11
Site Aware failover configuration.........................................................................................11
Easy deployment of Metrocluster..........................................................................................12
Easy deployment of storage............................................................................................12
Easy deployment of Metrocluster modular packages...........................................................12
Setting up the replication using 3PAR Remote Copy.....................................................................14
Connecting the arrays to the hosts in the cluster.....................................................................14
Create Remote Copy volume group......................................................................................14
Using HP 3PAR Mmanagement console GUI.....................................................................14
Using HP 3PAR CLI commands........................................................................................14
Creating a 3PAR storage system user to access the remote copy volume group...........................16
Setting up secure access from the cluster nodes to 3PAR storage systems...................................17
Setting up password files for cluster nodes to connect to HP 3PAR storage systems.................17
Setting up the SSH without a password from the cluster nodes to the HP 3PAR storage
systems........................................................................................................................18
Configuring LVM volume group and VxVM disk group.................................................................19
Creating and exporting LVM volume groups..........................................................................19
Creating VxVM disk groups................................................................................................20
Configuring Modular Packages ...............................................................................................22
Configuring a Metrocluster package using Serviceguard Manager...........................................24
3 Configuring complex workloads using SADTA..............................................29
Creating a Site Aware Metrocluster configuration........................................................................29
Creating a Serviceguard cluster with sites configured..............................................................29
Configuring the CFS multi-node package...............................................................................29
Easy Deployment of Site-Aware cluster and CFS cluster using cmdeploycl..................................29
Setting up replication..............................................................................................................30
Setting up the complex workload redundantly in Metrocluster.......................................................30
Configuring the storage device for the complex workload at the source disk site.........................30
Configuring the storage device using SG SMS CFS or CVM................................................30
Configuring the storage device using VERITAS CVM..........................................................31
Configuring the storage device using SLVM......................................................................32
Configuring the complex workload stack at the source disk site................................................33
Configuring complex workload packages to use SG SMS CVM or VERITAS CVM..................33
Configuring complex workload packages to use SLVM.......................................................33
Halting the complex workload at the source disk site..............................................................33
Preparing the replicated disk at the target disk site.................................................................34
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