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5 Disaster recovery rehearsal in Continentalclusters..........................................36
Overview of Disaster Recovery rehearsal...................................................................................36
Configuring Continentalclusters Disaster Recovery rehearsal.........................................................36
Configuring maintenance mode in Continentalclusters.............................................................36
Overview of maintenance mode feature...........................................................................36
Setting up the file system for Continentalclusters state directory............................................36
Configuring the monitor package to mount the file system from the shared disk......................37
Configuring Continentalclusters rehearsal packages................................................................38
Modifying Continentalclusters configuration...........................................................................38
Precautions to be taken while performing DR Rehearsal...............................................................39
Client access IP address at recovery cluster............................................................................39
Cluster role switch during rehearsal......................................................................................39
Performing Disaster Recovery rehearsal in Continentalclusters.......................................................39
Cleanup of secondary mirror copy............................................................................................41
Recovering the primary cluster disaster during DR Rehearsal.........................................................41
Limitations of DR rehearsal feature............................................................................................42
6 Configuring complex workloads in a Continentalclusters environment using
SADTA.......................................................................................................43
Setting up replication..............................................................................................................44
Configuring the primary cluster with a single site........................................................................44
Configuring the recovery cluster with a single site.......................................................................45
Setting up the complex workload in the primary cluster................................................................45
Configuring the storage device for the complex workload at the primary cluster.........................45
Configuring the storage device using CFS or SG SMS CVM................................................45
Configuring the storage device using Veritas CVM.............................................................46
Configuring the storage device using SLVM......................................................................47
Configuring the complex workload at the primary cluster....................................................48
Configuring complex workload packages to use CFS....................................................48
Configuring complex workload packages to use CVM...................................................48
Configuring complex workload packages to use SLVM..................................................48
Halting the complex workload in the primary cluster..........................................................48
Configuring the Site Controller Package in the primary cluster.......................................................49
Configuring the Site Safety Latch dependencies in the primary cluster............................................49
Suspending the replication to the recovery cluster.......................................................................50
Setting up redundant complex workload in the recovery cluster.....................................................51
Configuring the storage device for the complex workload at the recovery cluster........................51
Configuring the storage device using CFS or SG SMS CVM ...............................................51
Configuring the storage device using Veritas CVM.............................................................51
Configuring the storage device using SLVM......................................................................52
Configuring the identical complex workload stack at the recovery cluster.......................................52
Configuring the Site Controller package in the recovery cluster.....................................................52
Configuring Site Safety Latch dependencies...............................................................................52
Resuming the replication to the recovery cluster...........................................................................53
Configuring Continentalclusters.................................................................................................53
7 Administering Continentalclusters................................................................54
Checking the status of clusters, nodes, and packages..................................................................54
Notes on Packages in Continentalclusters...................................................................................56
Startup and Switching Characteristics...................................................................................57
Network Attributes.............................................................................................................57
Enabling and disabling maintenance mode...............................................................................57
Recovering a cluster when the storage array or disks fail..............................................................58
Starting a recovery package forcefully.......................................................................................58
Adding or Removing a Node from a Cluster...............................................................................59
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