Installation Overview
You can install Geographic Edition software on a running cluster without disruption. Because the
Geographic Edition software installation process does not require you to restart Oracle Solaris Cluster
software, the cluster remains in production with services running.
For zone clusters that are already created, when you install the Geographic Edition software,
the software is propagated to the zone-cluster nodes by default. If you create a zone cluster after
Geographic Edition software is installed in the global cluster, you must install the Geographic Edition
software in the new zone-cluster nodes.
This section contains lists of the tasks you need to perform to create a Geographic Edition
configuration.
Prerequisite Configuration Tasks
Before you begin administering the Geographic Edition framework, you must identify the Oracle
Solaris Cluster installations you want to host protection groups. Then, you need to adjust the
Oracle Solaris Cluster configuration and environment to support the formation of partnerships and
protection groups with the Geographic Edition framework. The following table describes these prerequisite
tasks.
Table 4 Prerequisite Configuration Tasks
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1. Set the cluster name to the name you want to use with the Geographic Edition framework.
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2. Set up the IP address and host maps for the cluster that is enabled to run Geographic
Edition framework.
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3. Install and configure your data replication product.
Note -
This step is required before you can create protection groups with the geopg
create command.
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See the Geographic Edition data replication guide for the product you are using. A list of
available manuals is provided in Protection Groups.
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4. Port and configure application configuration and corresponding resource groups on clusters
that are candidates for partnership.
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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 5 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 framework.
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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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