To Start the Failover Process................................................................................................

95

How the cmrecovercl Command Works.................................................................................

97

Forcing a Package to Start.......................................................................................................

97

Restoring Disaster Tolerance.....................................................................................................

98

Restore Clusters to their Original Roles..................................................................................

98

Primary Packages Remaining on the Surviving Cluster.............................................................

98

Primary Packages Remaining on the Surviving Cluster using cmswitchconcl................................

99

Newly Created Cluster Will Run Primary Packages...............................................................

102

Newly Created Cluster Will Function as Recovery Cluster for All Recovery Groups....................

102

Performing a Rehearsal Operation in your Environment..............................................................

103

Data Replication Rehearsal in a Sample Environment............................................................

104

Setup Environment.......................................................................................................

104

Device Group Configuration Changes.......................................................................

104

Rehearsal Package Configuration.............................................................................

104

Primary Package Metrocluster Environment File...........................................................

105

Continentalclusters Configuration..............................................................................

105

Rehearsing Failure for a Single Instance Application........................................................

105

Maintaining Continentalclusters..............................................................................................

106

Adding a Node to a Cluster or Removing a Node from a Cluster ..........................................

106

Adding a Package to the Continentalclusters........................................................................

107

Removing a Rehearsal Package from a Recovery Group........................................................

107

Modifying a Recovery Group with a new Rehearsal Package.................................................

107

Removing a Package from the Continentalclusters.................................................................

108

Changing Monitoring Definitions.......................................................................................

108

Checking the Status of Clusters, Nodes, and Packages..........................................................

108

Reviewing Messages and Log Files.....................................................................................

111

Deleting Continentalclusters Configuration...........................................................................

112

Renaming a Continentalclusters..........................................................................................

112

Checking the Version Number of the Continentalclusters Executables......................................

113

Next Steps......................................................................................................................

113

Support for Oracle RAC Instances in a Continentalclusters Environment........................................

113

Configuring the Environment for Continentalclusters to Support Oracle RAC.............................

114

Serviceguard/Serviceguard Extension for RAC and Oracle Clusterware Configuration..............

121

Initial Startup of Oracle RAC Instance in a Continentalclusters Environment..............................

121

Failover of Oracle RAC Instances to the Recovery Site...........................................................

122

Failback of Oracle RAC Instances After a Failover................................................................

124

Rehearsing Oracle RAC Databases in Continentalclusters......................................................

125

Support for Complex Workloads in a Continentalclusters Environment using SADTA.......................

125

Configuring a Complex Workload in Continentalclusters with SADTA......................................

127

Setting up Replication..................................................................................................

127

Configuring the Primary Cluster with a Single Site...........................................................

127

Configuring the Recovery Cluster with a Single Site.........................................................

128

Setting up the Complex Workload in the Primary Cluster..................................................

128

Configuring the Storage Device for the Complex Workload at the Primary Cluster...........

128

Configuring the Complex Workload at the Primary Cluster...............................................

132

Configuring Complex Workload Packages to Use CFS.................................................

133

Configuring Complex Workload Packages to Use SG SMS CVM or Veritas CVM in Legacy

Style Package........................................................................................................

133

Configuring Complex Workload Packages to use SLVM...............................................

133

Halting the Complex Workload in the Primary Cluster.................................................

133

Halting the Complex Workload in the Primary Cluster......................................................

134

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

134

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

135

Suspending the Replication to the Recovery Cluster..........................................................

136

Setting up Redundant Complex Workload in the Recovery Cluster.....................................

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