Chapter 4 Building a Metropolitan Cluster Using MetroCluster/SRDF

Table of Contents

Overview of MetroCluster/SRDF

Designing a Disaster Tolerant Architecture for use with MetroCluster/SRDF

Single Data Center
Three Data Centers with Arbitrator(s)
Disaster Tolerant Checklist
Cluster Configuration Worksheet
Package Configuration Worksheet

Preparing a Cluster for MetroCluster/SRDF

Installing the Necessary Software
Setting up Hardware for 1 by 1 Configurations
Setting up Hardware for M by N Configurations
Grouping the Symmetrix Devices at Each Data Center
Building the Symmetrix CLI Database
Determining Symmetrix Device Names on Each Node

Setting up 1 by 1 Configurations

Creating Symmetrix Device Groups
Configuring Gatekeeper Devices
Verifying the EMC Symmetrix Configuration
Creating and Exporting Volume Groups
Importing Volume Groups on Other Nodes
Configuring PV Links

Setting up M by N Configurations

Creating Symmetrix Device Groups
Configuring Gatekeeper Devices
Defining the Consistency Groups
Creating Volume Groups

Configuring MC/ServiceGuard Packages for Automatic Disaster Recovery

Maintaining a Cluster that Uses MetroCluster/SRDF

Managing Business Continuity Volumes

Protecting against Rolling Disasters
Using the BCV in Resynchronization

This chapter describes the high availability toolkit template for MetroCluster with EMC SRDF (hereafter known as MetroCluster/SRDF), which allows you to install and configure an MC/ServiceGuard metropolitan cluster using the EMC Symmetrix disk array. It is assumed that readers are already familiar with MC/ServiceGuard configuration tasks, MC/ServiceGuard metropolitan cluster concepts and installation procedures, EMC Symmetrix disk arrays and SRDF concepts, and Symmetrix Command Line Interface configuration and use.

The topics discussed in this chapter are:

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