Designing Disaster Recovery Clusters using Metroclusters and Continentalclusters, Reprinted October 2011 (5900-1881)

Continentalclusters Worksheets............................................................................................52
Data Center Worksheet .................................................................................................52
Recovery Group Worksheet ...........................................................................................53
Cluster Event Worksheet ................................................................................................53
Understanding Changes in Continentalclusters A.08.00..........................................................54
Continentalclusters User and Group.................................................................................54
Continentalclusters Configuration Package........................................................................54
Preparing the Clusters.............................................................................................................54
Setting up and Testing Data Replication................................................................................54
Configuring a Cluster without Recovery Packages...................................................................55
Configuring a Cluster with Recovery Packages.......................................................................56
Configuring Recovery Groups with Rehearsal Packages...........................................................58
Building the Continentalclusters Configuration.............................................................................58
Setting up Security.............................................................................................................59
Setting up Security with versions prior than A.08.00..........................................................59
Preparing Security Files.............................................................................................59
Setting up Security with Continentalclusters Version A.08.00...............................................60
Creating the Monitor Package.............................................................................................62
Configuring the Maintenance Mode Feature for Recovery Groups in Continentalclusters..............63
Configuring Shared Disk for the Maintenance Feature........................................................63
Configuring a Monitor Package for the Maintenance Feature..............................................64
Configuring Modular Packages in Continentalclusters.............................................................65
Configuring the Monitoring Daemon as a Modular Package...............................................65
Migrating the Legacy Monitoring Package to a Modular Style Package in Continentalclusters
A.08.00..................................................................................................................66
Configuring Primary and Recovery Packages as Modular Packages.....................................67
Configuring primary and recovery packages as modular packages when using Continuous
Access P9000 or XP.................................................................................................67
Configuring primary and recovery packages as modular packages when using Continuous
Access EVA.............................................................................................................69
Configuring primary and recovery packages as modular packages when using EMC
SRDF......................................................................................................................71
Configuring primary and recovery packages as modular packages using 3PAR Remote
Copy......................................................................................................................74
Configuring Continentalclusters Data Sender and Data Receiver Packages as Modular
Packages.....................................................................................................................74
Configuring Continentalclusters Rehearsal packages as Modular Packages...........................74
Editing the Continentalclusters Configuration File....................................................................76
Editing Section 1—Cluster Information.............................................................................76
Editing Section 2 – Recovery Groups...............................................................................79
Editing Section 3—Monitoring Definitions.........................................................................82
Selecting Notification Intervals........................................................................................86
Checking and Applying the Continentalclusters Configuration..................................................88
Starting the Continentalclusters Monitor Package....................................................................89
Validating the Configuration................................................................................................90
Documenting the Recovery Procedure...................................................................................91
Reviewing the Recovery Procedure........................................................................................91
Migrating to Continentalclusters A.08.00...................................................................................92
Testing the Continentalclusters..................................................................................................92
Testing Individual Packages.................................................................................................92
Testing Continentalclusters Operations..................................................................................93
Switching to the Recovery Packages in Case of Disaster...............................................................94
Receiving Notification.........................................................................................................94
Verifying that Recovery is Needed.......................................................................................94
Using the Recovery Command to Switch All Packages.............................................................95
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