InfoScale™ 9.0 Disaster Recovery Implementation Guide - Linux
- Section I. Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for disaster recovery
- About supported disaster recovery scenarios
- About disaster recovery scenarios
- About campus cluster configuration
- About replicated data clusters
- About global clusters
- How VCS global clusters work
- User privileges for cross-cluster operations
- VCS global clusters: The building blocks
- Visualization of remote cluster objects
- About global service groups
- About global cluster management
- About serialization - The Authority attribute
- About resiliency and "Right of way"
- VCS agents to manage wide-area failover
- About the Steward process: Split-brain in two-cluster global clusters
- Secure communication in global clusters
- Disaster recovery feature support for components in the Veritas InfoScale product suite
- Virtualization support for InfoScale 9.0 products in replicated environments
- Planning for disaster recovery
- About supported disaster recovery scenarios
- Section II. Implementing campus clusters
- Setting up campus clusters for VCS and SFHA
- About setting up a campus cluster configuration
- Preparing to set up a campus cluster configuration
- Configuring I/O fencing to prevent data corruption
- Configuring VxVM disk groups for campus cluster configuration
- Configuring VCS service group for campus clusters
- Setting up campus clusters for VxVM and VCS using Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager
- Fire drill in campus clusters
- About the DiskGroupSnap agent
- About running a fire drill in a campus cluster
- About setting up a campus cluster configuration
- Setting up campus clusters for SFCFSHA, SFRAC
- About setting up a campus cluster for disaster recovery for SFCFSHA or SF Oracle RAC
- Preparing to set up a campus cluster in a parallel cluster database environment
- Configuring I/O fencing to prevent data corruption
- Configuring VxVM disk groups for a campus cluster in a parallel cluster database environment
- Configuring VCS service groups for a campus cluster for SFCFSHA and SF Oracle RAC
- Tuning guidelines for parallel campus clusters
- Best practices for a parallel campus cluster
- Setting up campus clusters for VCS and SFHA
- Section III. Implementing replicated data clusters
- Configuring a replicated data cluster using VVR
- Configuring a replicated data cluster using third-party replication
- About setting up a replicated data cluster configuration using third-party replication
- About typical replicated data cluster configuration using third-party replication
- About setting up third-party replication
- Configuring the service groups for third-party replication
- Fire drill in replicated data clusters using third-party replication
- Section IV. Implementing global clusters
- Configuring global clusters for VCS and SFHA
- Installing and Configuring Cluster Server
- Setting up VVR replication
- About configuring VVR replication
- Best practices for setting up replication
- Creating a Replicated Data Set
- Creating a Primary RVG of an RDS
- Adding a Secondary to an RDS
- Changing the replication settings for a Secondary
- Synchronizing the Secondary and starting replication
- Starting replication when the data volumes are zero initialized
- Setting up third-party replication
- Configuring clusters for global cluster setup
- Configuring service groups for global cluster setup
- Fire drill in global clusters
- Configuring a global cluster with Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability, Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC, or Storage Foundation for Sybase CE
- About global clusters
- About replication for parallel global clusters using Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions
- About setting up a global cluster environment for parallel clusters
- Configuring the primary site
- Configuring the secondary site
- Setting up replication between parallel global cluster sites
- Testing a parallel global cluster configuration
- Configuring global clusters with VVR and Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability, Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC, or Storage Foundation for Sybase CE
- About configuring a parallel global cluster using Volume Replicator (VVR) for replication
- Setting up replication on the primary site using VVR
- Setting up replication on the secondary site using VVR
- Starting replication of the primary site database volume to the secondary site using VVR
- Configuring Cluster Server to replicate the database volume using VVR
- Replication use cases for global parallel clusters
- Configuring global clusters for VCS and SFHA
- Section V. Reference
- Appendix A. Sample configuration files
- Sample Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC configuration files
- About sample main.cf files for Storage Foundation (SF) for Oracle RAC
- About sample main.cf files for Storage Foundation (SF) for Sybase ASE CE
- Sample main.cf for a basic Sybase ASE CE cluster configuration under VCS control with shared mount point on CFS for Sybase binary installation
- Sample main.cf for a basic Sybase ASE CE cluster configuration with local mount point on VxFS for Sybase binary installation
- Sample main.cf for a primary CVM VVR site
- Sample main.cf for a secondary CVM VVR site
- Appendix A. Sample configuration files
About setting up a campus cluster for disaster recovery for SFCFSHA or SF Oracle RAC
Campus clusters:
Are connected using a high speed cable that guarantees network access between the nodes
Provide local high availability and disaster recovery functionality in a single cluster
Employ shared disk groups mirrored across sites with Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
Are supported for Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions products including Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) and Storage Foundation (SF) for Oracle RAC
Note:
Campus clusters are not supported for Storage Foundation for Sybase CE at this time.
The following high-level tasks illustrate the setup steps for a campus cluster in a parallel cluster database environment. The example values are given for SF for Oracle RAC and should be adapted for an SFCFSHA cluster using another database application.
The following high-level tasks illustrate the setup steps for a parallel campus cluster in an SF for Oracle RAC environment.
Table: Tasks for setting up a parallel campus cluster for disaster recovery
Task | Description |
|---|---|
Prepare to set up campus cluster configuration | See Preparing to set up a campus cluster in a parallel cluster database environment. |
Configure I/O fencing to prevent data corruption | |
Prepare to install Oracle RAC Clusterware and database binaries | See the Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Configuration and Upgrade Guide. |
Configure VxVM disk groups for campus cluster | See Configuring VxVM disk groups for a campus cluster in a parallel cluster database environment. |
Install Oracle RAC Clusterware and database binaries | For Oracle RAC, see the Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Configuration and Upgrade Guide. For SFCFSHA, see your database documentation. |
Configure VCS service groups | See Configuring VCS service groups for a campus cluster for SFCFSHA and SF Oracle RAC. |
The sample SF Oracle RAC configuration illustrates the configuration procedures with a four-node campus cluster with two nodes at each site. Each node is running SF Oracle RAC 9.0.
Table: Sample setup for an SF Oracle RAC campus cluster
Site | Hardware description |
|---|---|
Site 1: site1 Cluster name: clus1 | Servers: sys1 and sys2 Shared LUNs: disk01 disk02 disk03 disk04 (used as coordinator disk) disk05 |
Site 2: Site name: site2 Cluster name: clus1 | Servers: sys3 and sys4 Shared LUNs: disk06 disk07 disk08 disk09 (used as coordinator disk) |
Site 3: Site name: site3 Cluster name: clus1 | Shared LUN disk10 (used as coordinator disk) |
Although a Coordination Point (CP) server is not used in the current example, it can also be used instead of a third site for a coordinator disk.