Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA A.05.01

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................8
Overview of EVA and HP P6000/EVA Continuous Access concepts................................................8
Copy sets............................................................................................................................8
Data replication Groups (DR Groups).....................................................................................8
Write modes.......................................................................................................................9
DR Group write history log..................................................................................................10
Failover............................................................................................................................10
Failsafe mode....................................................................................................................11
Failsafe on Link-down/Power-up...........................................................................................11
Overview of a Metrocluster with HP P6000/EVA Continuous Access configuration..........................12
HP P6000/EVA Continuous Access Management Software..........................................................13
2 Configuring an application in a Metrocluster environment .............................14
Installing the necessary hardware and software..........................................................................14
Setting up the storage hardware .........................................................................................14
Installing the necessary software..........................................................................................14
Creating the cluster.................................................................................................................14
Easy deployment of Metrocluster..........................................................................................14
Regular deployment method ...............................................................................................14
Site Aware Failover Configuration...................................................................................15
Setting up the replication.........................................................................................................16
Creating VDISKs and DR groups using HP P6000 command view............................................16
Creating the Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA Map for the replicated storage ...............17
Defining Management Server and SMI-S information ........................................................17
Creating the Management Server list..........................................................................18
Creating the Management Server Mapping file............................................................18
Setting a default Management Server..........................................................................18
Displaying the list of Management Servers...................................................................18
Adding or updating Management Server information....................................................19
Deleting a Management Server..................................................................................19
Defining HP P6000/EVA Storages cells and DR groups......................................................19
Creating the Storage Map file....................................................................................20
Displaying information about storage devices...............................................................20
Copying the Map file.........................................................................................................20
Configuring volume groups......................................................................................................21
Identify the device special files for Vdisk in DR group..............................................................21
Identifying special device files for native multi-pathing........................................................21
Configuring LVM volume group using Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA.........................22
Configuring volume groups.............................................................................................22
Importing volume groups on nodes at the same site...........................................................23
Importing volume groups on nodes at the remote site.........................................................24
Creating VxVM disk groups using Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA..............................25
Importing VxVM disk groups at the remote site..................................................................25
Easy storage preparation....................................................................................................26
Installing and configuring an application...................................................................................26
Configuring a Metrocluster package ....................................................................................26
Configuring a Metrocluster package using Serviceguard Manager......................................28
Easy deployment of Metrocluster modular packages...........................................................32
3 Configuring complex workloads using Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture
(SADTA).....................................................................................................34
Creating a site aware Metrocluster configuration........................................................................34
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