Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Administering sites and

remote mirrors

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About sites and remote mirrors

■ Configuring Remote Mirror sites

■ Configuring sites for hosts

■ Configuring sites for storage

■ Changing the site name

■ Configuring site-based allocation on a disk group

■ Configuring site consistency on a disk group

■ Configuring site consistency on a volume

■ Setting the siteread policy on a volume

■ Site-based allocation of storage to volumes

■ Making an existing disk group site consistent

■ Fire drill — testing the configuration

■ Failure scenarios and recovery procedures

About sites and remote mirrors

In a Remote Mirror configuration (also known as a campus cluster or stretch

cluster) the hosts and storage of a cluster that would usually be located in one

Chapter