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Multi-site ha/dr solution pack

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1 Designing a Multi-Site SAN ................................................................. 7

Failover Manager overview .......................................................................................................... 7

Requirements .............................................................................................................................. 7

Designing a Multi-Site SAN .......................................................................................................... 8

Configuring data replication for optimal availability and redundancy .......................................... 8

When to use Network RAID-10+2 ................................................................................... 9

Configuring sites and quorum managers to achieve optimal high availability and redundancy ....... 9

Best practice ............................................................................................................... 10

Sample configurations .................................................................................................. 10

Alternative setups ............................................................................................................... 13

Designing the network for the Multi-Site SAN ............................................................................... 13

Best practices for implementing the Multi-Site SAN network ...................................................... 14

Common Multi-Site SAN network designs .............................................................................. 14

Sample recommended network configurations for Multi-Site SANs ............................................ 15

Using multiple subnets ....................................................................................................... 18

Using MPIO with multiple subnets .................................................................................. 18

Setting up application clusters in a Multi-Site SAN environment ....................................................... 19

Using the Primary Site designation in two-site configurations .................................................... 19

Failure modes and recovery steps .................................................................................. 19

Recover quorum operation ................................................................................................... 20

Best practices for configuring quorum and managers in a Multi-Site SAN environment ................. 20

2 Implementing a Multi-Site SAN .......................................................... 23

Before you begin ...................................................................................................................... 23

Preparing to install a new Multi-Site SAN .............................................................................. 23

Preparing to convert an existing SAN to a Multi-Site SAN ........................................................ 23

Installing the Multi-Site SAN ....................................................................................................... 23

Creating the management group .......................................................................................... 24

Creating Multi-Site clusters and volumes ................................................................................ 24

Using the Multi-Site cluster wizard .................................................................................. 24

Viewing the Multi-Site cluster information ......................................................................... 25

Converting an existing SAN to a Multi-Site SAN ........................................................................... 26

Prerequisites ...................................................................................................................... 26

Using the Multi-Site cluster wizard .................................................................................. 27

Configuring managers ............................................................................................................... 27

Overview .......................................................................................................................... 27

Configuring regular managers ............................................................................................. 28

Fault tolerant manager configurations ............................................................................. 28

Installing and configuring a Failover Manager ....................................................................... 28

Best practice .............................................................................................................. 28

Configuring sites ....................................................................................................................... 29

Viewing sites in the CMC .................................................................................................... 29

Sites map view ............................................................................................................ 30

Designating a primary site .................................................................................................. 31

Adding a site ..................................................................................................................... 31

P4000 Multi-Site HA/DR Solution Pack user guide

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