Installation and Configuration Tasks
After you have completed the prerequisite configuration tasks, you can install and configure
the Geographic Edition software as described in the following table.
Table 2-2 Geographic Edition Installation and Configuration Tasks
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1. Install Geographic Edition software.
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2. Set up security between the candidate partner clusters.
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3. If using a zone cluster as a partner, prepare the zone cluster for membership.
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4. Enable the Geographic Edition software.
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5. Create partnerships.
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6. Configure data replication.
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See the Geographic Edition data replication manual for the product you use. A list of available
manuals is provided in Protection Groups.
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7. Create and validate protection groups.
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See the Geographic Edition manual for the data replication product you use.
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8. Add data replication device groups and application resource groups to the protection
group.
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See the Geographic Edition manual for the data replication product you use.
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9. Bring online (activate) the protection groups.
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10 (Optional) Create sites and
multigroups.
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Set up sets of clusters and protection groups on which to perform switchover or takeover in a
single operation. For more information, see Configuring Sites and
Multigroups.
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11. Test the configured partnership and protection groups to validate the setup.
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Note -
You cannot perform personality swaps if you are running EMC Symmetrix Remote Data
Facility/Asynchronous data replication.
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