HP Serviceguard Toolkits for Database Replication Solutions User Guide, March 2012

1 Introduction
The HP Serviceguard Toolkits for Database Replication Solutions User Guide includes the HP
Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle Data Guard (ODG toolkit) and the HP Serviceguard toolkit for DB2
High Availability Disaster Recovery (DB2 HADR toolkit).
NOTE: The product name used for the depot is “Serviceguard Disaster Recovery Toolkits for
Databases”. However, the product name was changed to “HP Serviceguard Toolkits for Database
Replication Solutions” to match the functionality delivered.
The Database Replication Solutions complement existing active/standby configurations for databases
in high availability clusters. In general, these database replication services require additional
software to be licensed (and often purchased). For instance, Oracle Data Guard is not free with
Enterprise versions of Oracle database and need to be licensed separately. DB2 HADR is also a
licensed product. For more details, please look at the vendor documentation.
In case of DB2 database active/standby configurations within a High Availability (HA) cluster can
take time following a failover because a database may take time to recover before becoming
available. The DB2 HADR toolkit brings new advantages, allowing a replica of the database to
be placed elsewhere, thus providing some disaster recovery, as well as can bring a standby online
faster than it might take for an active/standby configuration to start.
The ODG toolkit facilitates easy integration of Oracle Data Guard in an HP Serviceguard cluster
for improved high availability and disaster recovery for an Oracle database. This toolkit consists
of scripts used to manage the Oracle Data Guard primary and standby database instances.
DB2 HADR toolkit enables you to configure the DB2 primary and standby database as two
Serviceguard packages. It also provides role management features, such as role takeover and role
switch for DB2 HADR.
NOTE:
• The HP Serviceguard Toolkits for Database Replication Solutions User Guide was formerly
known as the HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle Data Guard.
• The ODG toolkit is available with both HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11iv3 releases. The DB2
HADR toolkit is available only with 11iv3 release.
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