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1 Introduction | 8 |
2 Building the Continentalclusters configuration | 10 |
Creating the Serviceguard clusters at both the sites | 10 |
Easy deployment method | 10 |
Traditional deployment method | 10 |
Setting up security | 11 |
Creating data replication between the clusters | 12 |
Using array based physical replication supported by Metrocluster | 12 |
Using any other array based physical replication technology | 13 |
Using software based logical replication | 13 |
Creating volume groups or disk groups on the replicated disks if required | 13 |
Creating and Exporting LVM Volume Groups | 14 |
Creating VxVM Disk Groups | 15 |
Installing and Configuring an application in the primary site | 15 |
Installing and configuring a redundant copy of the application in the recovery site | 15 |
Configuring the Continentalclusters primary and recovery packages | 15 |
Configuring primary and recovery packages as modular packages when using Continuous Access | |
P9000 or XP | 16 |
Configuring the primary and recovery packages as modular packages when using Continuous |
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Access EVA | 17 |
Configuring the primary and recovery packages as modular packages when using EMC SRDF.... | 19 |
Configuring the primary and recovery packages as modular packages when using 3PAR Remote | |
Copy | 20 |
Configuring the monitor package | 21 |
Creating a Continentalclusters configuration | 22 |
Cluster information | 22 |
Recovery groups | 23 |
Monitoring definitions | 24 |
Checking and applying the Continentalclusters configuration | 25 |
Starting the Continentalclusters monitor package | 26 |
Testing the Continentalclusters | 26 |
Testing Individual Packages | 26 |
Testing Continentalclusters Operations | 26 |
3 Performing a recovery operation in Continentalclusters environment | 29 |
Performing recovery in case of disaster | 29 |
Receiving notification | 29 |
Verifying that recovery is required | 29 |
Preparing the storage manually in the recovery cluster | 29 |
Using cmrecovercl to recover the recovery groups | 30 |
Previewing the storage preparation | 30 |
Recovering the entire cluster after a cluster alarm | 30 |
Recovering the entire cluster after a cluster alert | 31 |
Recovering a single cluster in an | 31 |
Viewing the Continentalclusters status | 31 |
4 Restoring disaster recovery cluster after a disaster | 32 |
Retaining the original roles for primary and recovery cluster | 32 |
Switching the Primary and Recovery Cluster Roles | 32 |
Switching the Primary and Recovery Cluster Roles using cmswitchconcl | 33 |
Creating a new Primary Cluster | 34 |
Creating a new Recovery Cluster | 35 |
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