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Disaster Tolerance and Recovery in a Serviceguard Cluster

Understanding Types of Disaster Tolerant Clusters

Benefits of CLX

•CLX offers a more resilient solution than Extended Distance Cluster, as it provides complete integration between Serviceguard’s application package and the data replication subsystem. The storage subsystem is queried to determine the state of the data on the arrays.

CLX knows that application package data is replicated between two data centers. It takes advantage of this knowledge to evaluate the status of the local and remote copies of the data, including whether the local site holds the primary copy or the secondary copy of data, whether the local data is consistent or not and whether the local data is current or not. Depending on the result of this evaluation, CLX decides if it is safe to start the application package, whether a resynchronization of data is needed before the package can start, or whether manual intervention is required to determine the state of the data before the application package is started.

CLX allows for customization of the startup behavior for application packages depending on your requirements, such as data currency or application availability. This means that by default, CLX will always prioritize data consistency and data currency over application availability. If, however, you choose to prioritize availability over currency, you can configure CLX to start up even when the state of the data cannot be determined to be fully current (but the data is consistent).

•CLX XP supports synchronous and asynchronous replication modes, allowing you to prioritize performance over data currency between the data centers.

•Because data replication and resynchronization are performed by the storage subsystem, CLX may provide significantly better performance than Extended Distance Cluster during recovery. Unlike Extended Distance Cluster, CLX does not require any additional CPU time for data replication, which minimizes the impact on the host.

•There is little or no lag time writing to the replica, so the data remains current.

•Data can be copied in both directions, so that if the primary site fails and the replica takes over, data can be copied back to the primary site when it comes back up.

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Contents Page Legal Notices Contents Disaster Scenarios and Their Handling Managing an MD Device Contents Contents Editions and Releases Printing HistoryHP Printing Division Document Organization Intended AudiencePage Related Page Disaster Tolerance Evaluating the Need for Disaster Tolerance Evaluating the Need for Disaster Tolerance High Availability Architecture What is a Disaster Tolerant Architecture?Node 1 fails Pkg B Client ConnectionsDisaster Tolerant Architecture Extended Distance Clusters Understanding Types of Disaster Tolerant ClustersFrom both storage devices Extended Distance Cluster Two Data Center Setup Benefits of Extended Distance Cluster Cluster Extension CLX Cluster CLX for Linux Serviceguard Cluster Shows a CLX for a Linux Serviceguard cluster architectureBenefits of CLX Differences Between Extended Distance Cluster and CLX Continental Cluster New York Cluster Los Angeles ClusterData Cent er a Data Center B Continental ClusterBenefits of Continentalclusters Continental Cluster With Cascading Failover Comparison of Disaster Tolerant SolutionsAttributes Extended Distance Comparison of Disaster Tolerant Cluster SolutionsContinentalclusters Cluster HP-UX onlyUnderstanding Types of Disaster Tolerant Clusters Understanding Types of Disaster Tolerant Clusters Understanding Types of Disaster Tolerant Clusters WAN EVA Protecting Nodes through Geographic Dispersion Disaster Tolerant Architecture GuidelinesOff-line Data Replication Protecting Data through ReplicationPhysical Data Replication On-line Data ReplicationDisadvantages of physical replication in hardware are Advantages of physical replication in hardware areAdvantages of physical replication in software are Logical Data Replication Disadvantages of physical replication in software areDisadvantages of logical replication are Ideal Data Replication Using Alternative Power SourcesPower Circuit 1 node Alternative Power SourcesData Center a Node 3 Power Circuit Creating Highly Available NetworkingDisaster Tolerant Wide Area Networking Disaster Tolerant Local Area NetworkingDisaster Tolerant Cluster Limitations Managing a Disaster Tolerant Environment Manage it in-house, or hire a service?How is the cluster maintained? Additional Disaster Tolerant Solutions Information Building an Extended Distance Dwdm Types of Data Link for Storage NetworkingTwo Data Center and Quorum Service Location Architectures Two Data Center and Quorum Service Location Architectures Server Two Data Centers and Third Location with Dwdm and QuorumTwo Data Center and Quorum Service Location Architectures Rules for Separate Network and Data Links Guidelines on Dwdm Links for Network and Data Guidelines on Dwdm Links for Network and Data Guidelines on Dwdm Links for Network and Data Chapter Configuring your Environment Understanding Software RAID Installing XDC Installing the Extended Distance Cluster SoftwareSupported Operating Systems Prerequisites# rpm -Uvh xdc-A.01.00-0.rhel4.noarch.rpm Verifying the XDC InstallationInstalling the Extended Distance Cluster Software Configuring the Environment Configuring the Environment Configuring the Environment Setting the Value of the Link Down Timeout Parameter Configuring Multiple Paths to StorageCluster Reformation Time and Timeout Values Http//docs.hp.com Using Persistent Device NamesTo Create and Assemble an MD Device Creating a Multiple Disk Device# mdadm -A -R /dev/md0 /dev/hpdev/sde1 /dev/hpdev/sdf1 Chapter Linux #RAIDTAB= # MD RAID Commands To Create a Package Control Script Creating and Editing the Package Control ScriptsTo Edit the Datarep Variable To Configure the RAID Monitoring Service To Edit the Xdcconfig File parameterEditing the raid.conf File Cases to Consider when Setting Rpotarget RPO Target Definitions Chapter Multipledevices and Componentdevices Raidmonitorinterval Configuring your Environment for Software RAID Recovery Process What happens when this disaster occursDisaster Scenario Disaster Scenarios and Their Handling Disaster Scenarios and Their Handling# mdadm --remove /dev/md0 # mdadm -add /dev/md0 Dev/hpdev/mylink-sdf P1 uses a mirror md0 Run the following command to S2 is non-current by less # cmrunpkg packagename Execute the commands that With md0 consisting of only N1, for example Becomes accessible from N2 Center Disaster Scenarios and Their Handling Managing an MD Device Cat /proc/mdstat Viewing the Status of the MD DeviceExample A-1 Stopping the MD Device /dev/md0 Stopping the MD DeviceExample A-2 Starting the MD Device /dev/md0 Starting the MD Device# udevinfo -q symlink -n sdc1 Removing and Adding an MD Mirror Component Disk# mdadm --remove /dev/md0 /dev/hpdev/sde Adding a Mirror Component DeviceIndex 104