Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Administration Tasks (Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide)

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Administration Tasks

After you have completed the prerequisite administration tasks, you can install, configure, and administer the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software as described in the following table.

Table 2–3 Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Administration Tasks


Task	Description and Documentation
Install Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.	See the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Installation Guide.
Set up security between the candidate partner clusters.	Exchange certificates, as described in Configuring Secure Cluster Communication Using Security Certificates. (Optional) Configure a secure logical hostname that uses IP Security Architecture (IPsec), as described in Configuring Secure Cluster Communication Using IPsec.
Enable the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.	Use the `geoadm start` command. For more information, see Enabling the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software.
Create partnerships.	See How to Create a Partnership. This procedure includes the following: Modifying the default heartbeat. For more information, see Chapter 6, Administering Heartbeats. Configuring loss of heartbeat notification. For more information, see Configuring Heartbeat-Loss Notification.
Configure data replication.	For information about replicating data by using Sun StorageTek Availability Suite, see Chapter 1, Replicating Data With Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software, in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite. For information about replicating data by using Hitachi TrueCopy, see Chapter 1, Replicating Data With Hitachi TrueCopy Software, in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy. For information about replicating data by using EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility, see Chapter 1, Replicating Data With EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Software, in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility.
Create protection groups.	Create a protection group. See one of the following data replication guides: How to Create and Configure a Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite How to Create and Configure a Hitachi TrueCopy Protection Group That Does Not Use Oracle Real Application Clusters in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy How to Create and Configure an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Add data replication device groups. See one of the following data replication guides: How to Add a Data Replication Device Group to a Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite How to Add a Data Replication Device Group to a Hitachi TrueCopy Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy How to Add a Data Replication Device Group to an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Add application resource groups to the protection group. See one of the following data replication guides: How to Add an Application Resource Group to a Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite How to Add an Application Resource Group to a Hitachi TrueCopy Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy How to Add an Application Resource Group to an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Create a protection group that does not require data replication. See Creating a Protection Group That Does Not Require Data Replication.
Bring the protection groups online.	See one of the following data replication guides: How to Activate a Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite How to Activate a Hitachi TrueCopy Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy How to Activate an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility
Test the configured partnership and protection groups to validate the setup.	Perform a trial switchover or takeover and test some simple failure scenarios. See one of the following data replication guides: Chapter 3, Migrating Services That Use Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Data Replication, in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Chapter 3, Migrating Services That Use Hitachi TrueCopy Data Replication, in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy Chapter 3, Migrating Services That Use EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Data Replication, in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Note – You cannot perform personality swaps if you are running EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Asynchronous data replication.
Migrate services to the partner cluster.	See one of the following data replication guides: How to Switch Over a Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Protection Group From Primary to Secondary in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite How to Switch Over a Hitachi TrueCopy Protection Group From Primary to Secondary in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy How to Switch Over an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group From Primary to Secondary in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Note – You cannot perform personality swaps if you are running EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Asynchronous data replication.
Take over services from primary to secondary during a disaster.	See one of the following data replication guides: How to Force Immediate Takeover of Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Services by a Secondary Cluster in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite How to Force Immediate Takeover of Hitachi TrueCopy Services by a Secondary Cluster in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy How to Force Immediate Takeover of EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Services by a Secondary Cluster in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility
Recover from a takeover.	Data recovery and error repair outside of the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition infrastructure. See the Sun StorageTek Availability Suite, Hitachi TrueCopy, or EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility documentation. Resynchronize the partner clusters. See Recovering Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Data After a Takeover in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite, Recovering Services to a Cluster on a System That Uses Hitachi TrueCopy Replication in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy, or Recovering Services to a Cluster on a System That Uses EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Replication in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility.
Take a protection group offline.	See How to Deactivate a Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite, How to Deactivate a Hitachi TrueCopy Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy, or How to Deactivate an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility.
Delete a protection group.	See How to Delete a Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite, How to Delete a Hitachi TrueCopy Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy, or How to Delete an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility.
Delete a partnership.	See Leaving or Deleting a Partnership.
Disable the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.	See How to Disable the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software.
Uninstall the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.	See the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Installation Guide.