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

Creating a Serviceguard cluster with sites configured..............................................................34
Configuring the Cluster File System Multi-node Package...........................................................35
Easy deployment of site-aware cluster and CFS cluster using cmdeploycl....................................35
Setting up replication..............................................................................................................35
Setting up the complex workload redundantly in Metrocluster.......................................................35
Configuring the storage device for the complex workload at the source disk site.........................36
Configuring the storage device using SG SMS CFS or CVM................................................36
Configuring the storage device using VERITAS CVM..........................................................37
Configuring the storage device using SLVM......................................................................38
Configuring the complex workload stack at the source disk site................................................38
Configuring complex workload packages to use SG SMS CVM or Veritas CVM....................39
Configuring complex workload packages to use SLVM.......................................................39
Halting the complex workload at the source disk site..............................................................39
Preparing the replicated disk at the target disk site.................................................................39
Configuring the storage device for complex workload at the target disk site...............................39
Configuring the storage device using CFS or SG SMS CVM................................................39
Configuring the storage device using VERITAS CVM..........................................................40
Configuring the storage device using SLVM .....................................................................40
Configure the identical complex workload stack at the recovery site..........................................41
Halting the complex workload on the recovery site.................................................................41
Configuring the Site Controller package for the complex workload................................................41
Configuring the Site Controller package using Serviceguard Manager .....................................41
Configuring Site Controller package using Command Line Interface..........................................46
Configuring an empty Site Controller package..................................................................46
Configuring the Site Safety Latch dependencies for a complex workload..............................47
Modifying Site Controller to manage complex workload ...................................................47
Starting the complex workload in the Metrocluster..................................................................48
4 Additional Metrocluster features.................................................................49
Data replication storage failover preview...................................................................................49
Cluster verification..................................................................................................................49
Volume monitor configuration...................................................................................................51
Rolling upgrade for Metrocluster...............................................................................................51
Live Application Detach ..........................................................................................................51
HP vPars and HP Integrity VM..................................................................................................52
5 Understanding failover/failback scenarios...................................................53
Metrocluster package failover/failback scenarios .......................................................................53
Complex workload failover/failback scenarios...........................................................................56
Site failover ......................................................................................................................56
Node failure and rejoining the cluster...................................................................................57
Network partitions across sites.............................................................................................58
Disk array and SAN failure.................................................................................................58
Replication link failure........................................................................................................58
Site Controller package failure.............................................................................................58
Site failure........................................................................................................................59
6 Administering Metrocluster.........................................................................60
Adding a node to Metrocluster ................................................................................................60
Maintaining a Metrocluster using P6000 Continous Access replication..........................................60
HP P6000/EVA Continuous Access Link failure scenarios........................................................60
Planned maintenance.........................................................................................................61
Node maintenance.......................................................................................................61
Metrocluster package maintenance..................................................................................61
Failback...........................................................................................................................61
Administering the SADTA configuration......................................................................................61
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