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

Journal Cache, Journal Volumes, and Inflow Control........................................................161
Continuous Access Journal Pair State.............................................................................161
Limitations of Continuous Access Journal........................................................................161
One-to-One Volume Copy Operations...........................................................................162
One-to-One Journal Group Operations..........................................................................162
Journal Group Requirement..........................................................................................162
Configuring Continuous Access Journal..........................................................................162
Registering Journal Volumes..........................................................................................162
Data Replication Connections.......................................................................................163
Metrocluster package vs. Journal Group.........................................................................163
Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP and Thin Provisioning Volumes.............163
HP StorageWorks Smart Tiers............................................................................................164
Creating the Cluster..............................................................................................................164
Preparing the Cluster for Data Replication................................................................................164
Creating the RAID Manager Configuration..........................................................................164
Pair Creation of Journal Groups....................................................................................167
Creating Continuous Access Journal Pair........................................................................167
Sample Raid Manager Configuration File.......................................................................167
Notes on the Raid Manager Configuration.....................................................................169
Configuring Automatic Raid Manager Startup.................................................................169
Configuring a remote array RAID Manager instance.............................................................170
Configuring the command device to manage the remote P9000 or XP arrays......................172
Configuring a remote array RAID Manager instance........................................................173
Sample RAID Manager Configuration File for the Remote Command Device.......................175
Configuring the remote array RAID Manager instance for automatic startup........................176
Restrictions.................................................................................................................176
Defining Storage Units......................................................................................................176
Creating and Exporting LVM Volume Groups using Continuous Access P9000 or XP............176
Creating VxVM Disk Groups using Continuous Access P9000 or XP..................................177
Validating VxVM Disk Groups using Metrocluster/Continuous Access Data Replication........178
Configuring Legacy Packages for Disaster Recovery...................................................................179
Configuring Modular Packages..............................................................................................181
Configuring Modular Packages with Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP A.09.00..............181
Migrating Legacy Packages to Modular Packages with Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP
A.09.00.........................................................................................................................184
Configuring Modular Packages with Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP A.10.00 or Later....185
Migrating Legacy Packages to Modular Packages using Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP
A.10.00 or Later..............................................................................................................186
Upgrading Metrocluster XPCA Modular Packages to the Latest Version....................................187
Checking the Metrocluster Configuration.............................................................................189
Support for Easy Deployment Feature......................................................................................190
Easy Cluster Creation.......................................................................................................190
Easy Storage Preparation..................................................................................................190
Easy Deployment of Metrocluster Modular Packages.............................................................190
Adding a Node to a Metrocluster...........................................................................................191
Completing and Running a Metrocluster Solution with Continuous Access P9000 or XP..................192
Maintaining a Cluster that uses Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP............192
Viewing the Progress of Copy Operations.......................................................................192
Viewing Side File Size.................................................................................................192
Viewing the Continuous Access Journal Status.................................................................193
Viewing the Pair and Journal Group Information - Raid Manager using the “pairdisplay”
Command..................................................................................................................193
Viewing the Journal Volumes Information - Raid Manager using the “raidvchkscan”
Command..................................................................................................................193
Normal Maintenance..................................................................................................194
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