User's Guide

To Start the Failover Process................................................................................................95
How the cmrecovercl Command Works.................................................................................97
Forcing a Package to Start.......................................................................................................97
Restoring Disaster Tolerance.....................................................................................................98
Restore Clusters to their Original Roles..................................................................................98
Primary Packages Remaining on the Surviving Cluster.............................................................98
Primary Packages Remaining on the Surviving Cluster using cmswitchconcl................................99
Newly Created Cluster Will Run Primary Packages...............................................................102
Newly Created Cluster Will Function as Recovery Cluster for All Recovery Groups....................102
Performing a Rehearsal Operation in your Environment..............................................................103
Data Replication Rehearsal in a Sample Environment............................................................104
Setup Environment.......................................................................................................104
Device Group Configuration Changes.......................................................................104
Rehearsal Package Configuration.............................................................................104
Primary Package Metrocluster Environment File...........................................................105
Continentalclusters Configuration..............................................................................105
Rehearsing Failure for a Single Instance Application........................................................105
Maintaining Continentalclusters..............................................................................................106
Adding a Node to a Cluster or Removing a Node from a Cluster ..........................................106
Adding a Package to the Continentalclusters........................................................................107
Removing a Rehearsal Package from a Recovery Group........................................................107
Modifying a Recovery Group with a new Rehearsal Package.................................................107
Removing a Package from the Continentalclusters.................................................................108
Changing Monitoring Definitions.......................................................................................108
Checking the Status of Clusters, Nodes, and Packages..........................................................108
Reviewing Messages and Log Files.....................................................................................111
Deleting Continentalclusters Configuration...........................................................................112
Renaming a Continentalclusters..........................................................................................112
Checking the Version Number of the Continentalclusters Executables......................................113
Next Steps......................................................................................................................113
Support for Oracle RAC Instances in a Continentalclusters Environment........................................113
Configuring the Environment for Continentalclusters to Support Oracle RAC.............................114
Serviceguard/Serviceguard Extension for RAC and Oracle Clusterware Configuration..............121
Initial Startup of Oracle RAC Instance in a Continentalclusters Environment..............................121
Failover of Oracle RAC Instances to the Recovery Site...........................................................122
Failback of Oracle RAC Instances After a Failover................................................................124
Rehearsing Oracle RAC Databases in Continentalclusters......................................................125
Support for Complex Workloads in a Continentalclusters Environment using SADTA.......................125
Configuring a Complex Workload in Continentalclusters with SADTA......................................127
Setting up Replication..................................................................................................127
Configuring the Primary Cluster with a Single Site...........................................................127
Configuring the Recovery Cluster with a Single Site.........................................................128
Setting up the Complex Workload in the Primary Cluster..................................................128
Configuring the Storage Device for the Complex Workload at the Primary Cluster...........128
Configuring the Complex Workload at the Primary Cluster...............................................132
Configuring Complex Workload Packages to Use CFS.................................................133
Configuring Complex Workload Packages to Use SG SMS CVM or Veritas CVM in Legacy
Style Package........................................................................................................133
Configuring Complex Workload Packages to use SLVM...............................................133
Halting the Complex Workload in the Primary Cluster.................................................133
Halting the Complex Workload in the Primary Cluster......................................................134
Configuring the Site Controller Package in the Primary Cluster...........................................134
Configuring the Site Safety Latch Dependencies in the Primary Cluster................................135
Suspending the Replication to the Recovery Cluster..........................................................136
Setting up Redundant Complex Workload in the Recovery Cluster.....................................136
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