Preface

The following two guides describe disaster tolerant clusters solutions using Serviceguard, Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP, Metrocluster Continuous Access EVA, Metrocluster EMC SRDF, and Continentalclusters:

Understanding and Designing Serviceguard Disaster Tolerant Architectures

Designing Disaster Recovery HA Clusters Using Metrocluster and Continentalclusters

The Understanding and Designing Serviceguard Disaster Tolerant Architectures guide provides an overview of Hewlett-Packard Disaster Tolerant high availability cluster technologies and how to configure an extended distance cluster using Serviceguard. It is assumed you are already familiar with Serviceguard high availability concepts and configurations.

The contents are as follows:

Chapter 1, Disaster Tolerance and Recovery in a Serviceguard Cluster, is an overview of disaster tolerant cluster configurations.

Chapter 2, Building an Extended Distance Cluster Using Serviceguard, shows the creation of disaster tolerant cluster solutions using extended distance Serviceguard cluster configurations.

The Designing Disaster Recovery HA Clusters Using Metrocluster and Continentalclusters guide provides detailed, task-oriented documentation on how to configure, manage, and set up disaster tolerant clusters using Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP, Metrocluster Continuous Access EVA, Metrocluster EMC SRDF, Continentalclusters, and Three Data Center Architecture.

The contents are as follows:

Chapter 1, Designing a Metropolitan Cluster, shows the creation of disaster tolerant cluster solutions using the metropolitan cluster products.

Chapter 2, Designing a Continentalclusters, shows the creation of disaster tolerant solutions using the Continentalclusters product.

Chapter 3, Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP, shows how to integrate physical data replication via Continuous Access P9000 and XP with metropolitan and Continentalclusters.

Chapter 4, Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA, shows how to integrate physical data replication via Continuous Access EVA with metropolitan and Continentalclusters.

Chapter 5, Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with EMC SRDF, shows how to integrate physical data replication via EMC Symmetrix disk arrays. Also, it shows the configuration of a special Continentalclusters that uses more than two disk arrays.

Chapter 6, Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy shows how to integrate physical data replication via HP 3PAR Remote Copy with Metrocluster and Continentalclusters.

Chapter 7, Designing a Disaster Recovery Solution Using Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture, describes how to configure a site aware disaster tolerant architecture in a Metrocluster with Oracle Database 10gR2 RAC.

Chapter 8, Designing a Disaster Recovery Solution Using the Three Data Center Architecture, shows how to integrate synchronous replication (for data consistency) and Continuous Access journaling (for long-distance replication) using Serviceguard, Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP, Continentalclusters and HP StorageWorks P9000 or XP 3DC Data Replication Architecture.

A set of appendixes and a glossary provide additional reference information.

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