Installation and Configuration Tasks

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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

Task	Description and Documentation
1. Install Geographic Edition software.	See Installing Geographic Edition Software.
2. Set up security between the candidate partner clusters.	Exchange certificates, as described in Security Certificates. (Optional) Configure a secure logical hostname that uses IP Security Architecture (IPsec), as described in IP Security (IPsec).
3. If using a zone cluster as a partner, prepare the zone cluster for membership.	See Preparing a Zone Cluster for Partner Membership.
4. Enable the Geographic Edition software.	Issue the `geoadm start` command. For more information, see Enabling the Geographic Edition Infrastructure.
5. Create partnerships.	See Configuring a Partnership.
6. Configure data replication.	See the Geographic Edition data replication manual for the product you use. A list of available manuals is provided in Protection Groups.
7. Create and validate protection groups.	See the Geographic Edition manual for the data replication product you use. To create a protection group that does not require data replication, see Creating a Protection Group That Does Not Require Data Replication.
8. Add data replication device groups and application resource groups to the protection group.	See the Geographic Edition manual for the data replication product you use.
9. Bring online (activate) the protection groups.	See How to Activate a Protection Group.
10 (Optional) Create sites and multigroups.	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.
11. Test the configured partnership and protection groups to validate the setup.	Perform a trial switchover or takeover and test some simple failure scenarios. See Chapter 11, Migrating Services, in Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide and procedures to migrate services in the Geographic Edition manual for your data replication product. Note - You cannot perform personality swaps if you are running EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Asynchronous data replication.