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Contents
1 Designing a Multi-Site SAN.........................................................................4
Failover Manager overview........................................................................................................4
Requirements...........................................................................................................................4
Designing a Multi-Site SAN........................................................................................................4
Configuring data replication for optimal availability and redundancy.........................................5
Configuring sites and quorum managers to achieve optimal high availability and redundancy.......6
Alternative setups.................................................................................................................9
Designing the network for the Multi-Site SAN.............................................................................10
Best practices for implementing the Multi-Site SAN network.....................................................10
Common Multi-Site SAN network designs..............................................................................11
Sample recommended network configurations for Multi-Site SANs............................................11
Using multiple subnets .......................................................................................................14
Setting up application clusters in a Multi-Site SAN environment.....................................................17
Using the Primary Site designation in two-site configurations....................................................18
Recover quorum operation..................................................................................................18
Best practices for configuring quorum and managers in a Multi-Site SAN environment................18
2 Implementing a Multi-Site SAN...................................................................20
Before you begin....................................................................................................................20
Preparing to install a new Multi-Site SAN..............................................................................20
Preparing to convert an existing SAN to a Multi-Site SAN.......................................................20
Installing the Multi-Site SAN.....................................................................................................20
Creating the management group.........................................................................................21
Creating Multi-Site clusters and volumes................................................................................21
Converting an existing SAN to a Multi-Site SAN.........................................................................23
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................23
Configuring managers............................................................................................................24
Overview..........................................................................................................................24
Configuring regular managers.............................................................................................24
Installing and configuring a Failover Manager.......................................................................24
Configuring sites....................................................................................................................25
Viewing sites in the CMC....................................................................................................26
Designating a primary site..................................................................................................27
Adding a site....................................................................................................................27
Editing a site.....................................................................................................................27
Deleting a site...................................................................................................................27
Adding storage systems to a Multi-Site cluster.............................................................................28
Adding additional capacity to existing sites...........................................................................28
Removing storage systems from a Multi-Site cluster.......................................................................29
To remove the storage systems from the site...........................................................................29
Removing servers from a site....................................................................................................29
3 Support and other resources......................................................................30
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................30
Subscription service............................................................................................................30
HP Insight Remote Support Software..........................................................................................30
New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................31
Related information.................................................................................................................31
HP websites......................................................................................................................31
Glossary....................................................................................................32
Index.........................................................................................................38
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