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

Logs and files....................................................................................................................60
Cleaning the site to restart the Site Controller package............................................................61
Identifying and cleaning MNP stack packages that are halted.................................................62
Understanding Site Controller package logs..........................................................................62
A Checklist and worksheet for configuring Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote
Copy.........................................................................................................68
Disaster recovery checklist.......................................................................................................68
Cluster configuration worksheet................................................................................................68
Package configuration worksheet..............................................................................................69
Worksheet for configuring SADTA ............................................................................................70
B Configuring Oracle RAC in SADTA.............................................................74
Overview of Metrocluster for RAC.............................................................................................74
Configuring Oracle RAC database in a SADTA..........................................................................75
Setting up SADTA..............................................................................................................75
Pre-requisites for configuring SADTA................................................................................75
Sample configuration.........................................................................................................77
Configuring SADTA............................................................................................................79
Setting up replication.........................................................................................................79
Configuring Metrocluster with sites.......................................................................................79
Creating a Serviceguard cluster with sites configured.........................................................80
Configuring the CFS Multi-node Package (SMNP)..............................................................81
Installing and configuring Oracle Clusterware........................................................................81
Configuring the Network................................................................................................81
Configuring the storage device for installing Oracle Clusterware.........................................82
Setting Up CRS OCR and VOTING directories .................................................................82
Installing and configuring Oracle Clusterware...................................................................83
Configuring SGeRAC toolkit packages for the site Oracle Clusterware sub-cluster..................84
Installing and configuring Oracle RAC..................................................................................85
Creating the RAC database at the local site..........................................................................85
Setting up CFS file systems for RAC database data files .....................................................85
Setting up CFS file systems for RAC database flash recovery...............................................86
Creating the RAC database using the Oracle DBCA..........................................................87
Configuring and testing RAC MNP stack at the local disk site ............................................87
Halting the RAC database on the local disk site................................................................87
Creating identical RAC database at the remote site................................................................88
Configuring the replica RAC database.............................................................................88
Configuring the RAC MNP stack at the recovery cluster......................................................90
Halting the RAC database on the recovery cluster..............................................................90
Configuring an empty Site Controller package.......................................................................90
Configuring the Site Safety Latch dependencies.....................................................................91
Modifying Site Controller to manage RAC MNP stack packages..............................................91
Starting the disaster tolerant RAC database in the Metrocluster................................................92
Configuring client access for Oracle database 10gR2 RAC.....................................................93
Configuring SGeRA cluster interconnect subnet monitoring......................................................94
Configuring and administration restrictions............................................................................94
Failure scenarios in Metrocluster for RAC...................................................................................94
Oracle RAC database failure ..............................................................................................94
Oracle RAC database instance failure..................................................................................95
Oracle RAC database Oracle Clusterware daemon ailure.......................................................95
Administering Metrocluster for RAC...........................................................................................95
Online addition and deletion of nodes.................................................................................95
Adding nodes online on a primary site where the RAC database is running..........................95
Adding nodes online on a remote site where the RAC database is down..............................96
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