Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA P6000 for Linux B.01.00.00

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................5
Overview of P6000/EVA and HP P6000 Continuous Access Concepts............................................5
Copy sets............................................................................................................................5
Data replication Groups (DR Groups).....................................................................................5
Write modes.......................................................................................................................6
DR Group write history log....................................................................................................7
Failover..............................................................................................................................7
Failsafe mode......................................................................................................................8
Failsafe on Link-down/Power-up.............................................................................................8
Overview of a Metrocluster with HP P6000 Continuous Access configuration....................................9
HP P6000 Continuous Access Management Software.................................................................10
2 Configuring an application in a Metrocluster environment .............................11
Installing the necessary hardware and software..........................................................................11
Setting up the storage hardware .........................................................................................11
Installing the necessary software..........................................................................................11
Creating the cluster.................................................................................................................11
Site Aware Failover Configuration........................................................................................11
Setting up the replication.........................................................................................................12
Creating VDISKs and DR groups using HP P6000 command view............................................12
Using Storage System Scripting Utility (SSSU).........................................................................13
Creating the Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA P6000 for Linux Map for the replicated
storage ............................................................................................................................13
Defining Management Server and SMI-S information ........................................................14
Creating the Management Server list..........................................................................14
Creating the Management Server Mapping file............................................................14
Setting a default Management Server..........................................................................15
Displaying the list of Management Servers...................................................................15
Adding or updating Management Server information....................................................15
Deleting a Management Server..................................................................................16
Defining HP P6000/EVA Storages cells and DR groups......................................................16
Creating the Storage Map file....................................................................................16
Displaying information about storage devices...............................................................17
Copying the Map file.........................................................................................................17
Configuring volume groups......................................................................................................17
Identify the device special files for Vdisk in DR group..............................................................17
Identifying special device files.........................................................................................18
Configuring LVM volume group using Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA P6000 for
Linux................................................................................................................................18
Creating LVM volume groups .........................................................................................18
Installing and configuring an application...................................................................................19
Configuring a Metrocluster package ....................................................................................19
Setting up Disk Monitoring.............................................................................................21
Configuring a Metrocluster package using Serviceguard Manager......................................21
3 Metrocluster features.................................................................................25
Data replication storage failover preview...................................................................................25
Rolling upgrade for Metrocluster...............................................................................................25
Live Application Detach ..........................................................................................................26
4 Understanding failover/failback scenarios...................................................27
Metrocluster package failover/failback scenarios .......................................................................27
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