3DC DR Solution Configuration.........................................................................................

424

Tri-Link Configuration...................................................................................................

425

Bi-Link Configuration....................................................................................................

427

Overview of Device Group Monitor Feature in 3DC DR Solution.............................................

428

Infrastructure Requirements.....................................................................................................

429

Configuring an P9000 or XP 3DC DR Solution.........................................................................

429

Install the required software on all nodes in the 3DC DR Solution ..........................................

430

Configuring the Primary Cluster ........................................................................................

430

Configuring the Recovery Cluster ......................................................................................

430

Configuring RAID Manager in the Primary and Recovery Cluster............................................

430

Creating Device Group Pairs ............................................................................................

437

Assigning Remote Command Devices to Journal Volumes......................................................

440

LVM Volume Groups Configuration.....................................................................................

440

VxVM Configuration.........................................................................................................

441

Installing and configuring the application at the primary cluster ............................................

441

Configuring Primary Packages in the Primary Cluster using the 3DC Modules .........................

442

Starting the primary packages in the primary cluster ............................................................

445

Installing and configuring the application at the recovery cluster ...........................................

445

Configuring Recovery Packages in the Recovery Cluster.........................................................

445

Configure Continentalclusters and Continentalclusters Recovery Group....................................

447

Deploying a Complex Workload in Three Data Center Solution using SADTA...............................

447

Overview of Deploying a Complex Workload in 3DC using SADTA........................................

448

Deploying Oracle RAC in a 3DC Solution using SADTA........................................................

449

Configuring Oracle RAC in a 3DC Solution using SADTA......................................................

450

Configuring the Primary Cluster.....................................................................................

451

Configure the Recovery Cluster......................................................................................

451

Configure RAID Manager in the primary and recovery cluster...........................................

452

Creating Device Group Pairs........................................................................................

452

Configuring Oracle RAC and the Site Controller Package in the primary cluster...................

452

Setting up Oracle RAC redundantly in the primary cluster............................................

452

Configuring the Site Controller Package in the primary cluster......................................

452

Configuring Site Safety Latch Dependencies in the Primary Cluster ...............................

454

Configuring Oracle RAC and the Site Controller Package in the recovery cluster..................

454

Configuring Oracle RAC in the recovery cluster..........................................................

454

Configuring the Site Controller Package in the Recovery Cluster....................................

458

Configuring the Site Safety Latch Dependencies in the Recovery Cluster.........................

459

Configure Continentalclusters........................................................................................

460

Configure a Continentalclusters Recovery Group..............................................................

460

Verifying the Three Data Center Environment............................................................................

461

Previewing the Data Replication Storage Failover by Using cmdrprev......................................

461

Testing the application startup at the recovery cluster............................................................

462

Testing Continentalclusters Recovery Using cmrecovercl in the Recovery Cluster........................

463

Automatic Failover between DC1 and DC2..............................................................................

464

Recovery at the third data center (DC3)...................................................................................

466

Performing Recovery Group Rehearsal in the 3DC DR Solution...............................................

466

Failback Scenarios................................................................................................................

466

Failback from Data Center 3 (DC3)....................................................................................

466

Recovering the latest data from DC3...................................................................................

467

MULTI-HOP-BI-LINK Data Recovery from DC3 to DC1.......................................................

467

MULTI-TARGET-BI-LINK Data Recovery from DC3 to DC1...................................................

469

TRI-LINK Data Recovery from DC3 to DC1......................................................................

470

Configuring Remote Array RAID Manager Instances for RCMD (Optional)....................................

471

Timing Considerations...........................................................................................................

471

Bandwidth for Continuous Access and Application Recovery Time...............................................

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