Designing Disaster Tolerant High Availability Clusters, 10th Edition, March 2003 (B7660-90013)

Building a Continental Cluster
Preparing the Clusters
Chapter 5 205
Table 5-4 shows the types of packages that are needed for each type of
data replication.
Configuring a Cluster without Recovery Packages
Use the following steps and the instructions in chapters 4 through 7 of
Managing MC/ServiceGuard manual as guidelines for creating a new
cluster or preparing an existing cluster to run in a ContinentalClusters
environment:
1. If you are creating a new cluster, install required versions (or later)
of HP-UX and MC/ServiceGuard. If you are using an existing cluster,
upgrade to the versions of HP-UX and MC/ServiceGuard that are
required for ContinentalClusters. See the ContinentalClusters
Release Notes for specifics on required version. Coordinate with the
recovery site to make sure the same versions and patches are
installed at both sites.
2. Set up all cabling, being sure to provide redundant disk storage links
and network connections.
3. Configure the disks and filesystems. Set up data replication (logical
or physical).
4. Configure the cluster according to the instructions in chapter 5 of
Managing MC/ServiceGuard manual. Use the cmapplyconf
command to apply the cluster configuration. Then test the cluster.
Table 5-4 ContinentalClusters Data Replication Package Structure
Primary Cluster Recovery Cluster
Replication
Type
Primary
Application
Package
Data
Replication
Sender
Package
Recovery
Application
Package
Data
Replication
Receiver
Package
XP Series/CA Yes No Yes No
Symmetrix/EMC
SRDF
Yes No Yes No
Oracle Standby
Database
Yes No Yes Yes