HP XP Cluster Extension Software Administrator Guide

Stopping the pair/resync monitor....................................................................................50
Cluster Extension Cmdlets for CSV and Virtual Machine Management...........................................52
4 HP XP Cluster Extension recovery procedures...............................................62
XP disk pair states..................................................................................................................62
Recovery sequence.................................................................................................................63
5 User configuration file and HP XP Cluster Extension objects............................64
User configuration file location.................................................................................................64
File structure......................................................................................................................64
Specifying object values.....................................................................................................65
COMMON objects.................................................................................................................66
APPLICATION objects .............................................................................................................67
APPLICATION objects.........................................................................................................67
Basic configuration example....................................................................................................75
6 Advanced HP XP Cluster Extension configuration..........................................77
Configuring the HP XP Cluster Extension for HP XP Continuous Access 3DC environment..................77
Implementing rolling disaster protection.....................................................................................79
Using RAID Manager with rolling disaster protection..............................................................79
Setting HP XP Cluster Extension objects to enable rolling disaster protection...............................80
Setting automatic recovery for rolling disaster protection.........................................................80
Using the pair/resync monitor with rolling disaster protection..................................................80
Restoring server operation for rolling disaster protection..........................................................80
Monitoring and resynchronizing device/copy groups..................................................................81
Enabling write access regardless of disk pair state......................................................................82
Executing programs before and after an HP XP Cluster Extension takeover.....................................82
Arguments........................................................................................................................83
Pre-executable return codes.................................................................................................83
Post-executable return codes................................................................................................84
7 Troubleshooting........................................................................................85
HP XP Cluster Extension log files...............................................................................................85
Start errors.............................................................................................................................85
Failover error handling............................................................................................................85
MSFC-specific error handling...................................................................................................86
Resource start errors...........................................................................................................86
Failover errors...................................................................................................................86
Using the Domain user account (Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2 only)............87
Pair/resync monitor messages in event log.................................................................................88
8 Support and other resources......................................................................89
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................89
Subscription service............................................................................................................89
Related information.................................................................................................................89
White papers....................................................................................................................90
HP websites......................................................................................................................90
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................90
Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................91
Glossary....................................................................................................92
Index.........................................................................................................94
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