Veritas Cluster Server 6.

0 for UNIX:
Cluster Management
Lesson 5: High Availability in the Enterprise
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Lesson introduction
Lesson 1: Service Group Dependencies
Lesson 2: Reconfiguring Cluster Membership
Lesson 3: Startup and Failover Policies
Lesson 4: Alternate Network Configurations
Lesson 5: High Availability in the Enterprise

Lesson objectives

Topic

Objectives

Veritas Operations
Manager

Describe how to manage multiple clusters

on different platforms.

Disaster recovery

Describe how to improve disaster recovery.

Virtualization
support

Describe Symantec solutions for high

availability and disaster recovery in virtual
environments.

Veritas Operations
Manager
After completing this topic, you
will be able to describe the
Veritas Operations Manager
administration tool.

Simplified cluster management

All supported
operating
systems

Veritas Operations Manager

eCommerce Virtual Business Service

Physical and
virtual
environments
Multi-tier
applications
Local clusters
for availability
Remote clusters
for disaster
recovery

Application Server

Veritas Cluster
Server

Storage
Foundation

Virtual
Veritas Cluster
Server

Cluster File
System HA

Physical

Storage
Foundation

VOM functional
overview

View faults and risks

summary.
Drill down to see faults or
risks details.
Quickly find
documentation and
support information.

Manage clusters, groups,

and resources anywhere
on the network.

Distributed commands in a VOM domain

Add OraOper to all clusters with Oracle service groups

Clusters with Oracle service groups

License deployment policies

and reporting

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VOM Add-ons

Disaster recovery
enhancements
After completing this topic, you
will be able to describe disaster
recovery testing with VCS.

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Testing disaster recovery

VCS fire drill
Nondisruptiveprimary stays online and continues to replicate to
secondary
Minimal storage requirements

66%

Primary site

orasg

Secondary site

orasg

Enterprises do not
test DR plan yearly

Without fire drill:

Very disruptive
May not work
Lack of resources
Procedure unknown

Bring fire drill service group online to:

1. Take space-optimized snapshot.
2. Mount snapshot file system.
3. Bring application online.

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Successful fire drill example

VCS log traces status of fire drill

Unique ID given to each fire drill process
Log tail shows service group coming
online (success)

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DR configuration problem example

Critical data is not
replicated.

New volume added to primary disk group

Admin is not aware of replication and does not add
volume to SRDF R1
New tablespace created, but not replicated

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Failed fire drill example

VCS engine log identifies mismatch.

Fire drill on secondary reports an anomaly

User knows new tablespace is not
replicated
A real failover would have failed
SRDF admin can correct problem

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Managing replication with VOM

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Site-wide notification and migration

GCO Link

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Disaster Recovery Advisor

Conduct automated, non-disruptive HA/DR tests as frequently
as necessary
3
1
2
Analyze

Scan
Production

DR

Collects data agentlessly

Runs unobtrusively in the
background
Provides the equivalent of
an HA/DR test daily

Report

Configuration Data

Remediation Guidance

Vulnerability Signatures

Compares configuration data

against ~4,000 risks

Provides actionable reports with

clear remediation steps

Assesses entire
environment, including both
Symantec and nonSymantec solutions

Includes a dashboard of key

risk categories by business
entity

Offers a graphical view of the

topology

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Virtualization support
After completing this topic, you
will be able to describe Symantec
solutions for high availability and
disaster recovery in virtual
environments.

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Server Virtualization Approaches

Hardware
Partitioning

Bare Metal
Hypervisor

Hosted Hypervisor

OS Container

Par1

Par2

VM1

VM2

VM3

VM1

VM2

VM3

CONT
1

CONT
2

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

Hypervisor
Partition
Controlle
r

Hypervisor
Host OS

SMP Server

Server subdivided into

partitions each running an OS
Board-level partitioning
Sun Domains
HP nPartitions
Core/thread-level partitioning
Original POWER4 LPAR
HP vPartitions

SMP Server

Hypervisor provides
timesharing of all resources
Hypervisor runs on server
PowerVM Hypervisor
VMware ESX Server
Xen Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V

SMP Server

Hypervisor uses OS services

to timeshare all resources
Hypervisor runs on host OS
VMware GSX
Microsoft Virtual Server
HP Integrity VM
User Mode Linux
Linux KVM
Solaris LDOM

Host OS
SMP Server

Security container
controls app access
Container runs on host OS
Solaris Zone
AIX WPAR
HP SRP

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Server Virtualization Approaches

Hardware
Partitioning

Bare Metal
Hypervisor

Hosted Hypervisor

OS Container

Par1

Par2

VM1

VM2

VM3

VM1

VM2

VM3

CONT
1

CONT
2

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

VCS
SF

VCS
SF

VCS
SF

VCS
SF

VCS
SF

VCS
SF

VCS
SF

VCS
SF

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

Hypervisor
Partition
Controlle
r

Hypervisor
VCS
SF Host OS

SMP Server

SFHA in partitions

SMP Server

SFHA in virtual machines

SMP Server

SFHA in VMs and hosts

VCS
SF

Host OS

SMP Server

SFHA in containers and

hosts

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Symantec in the virtualization ecosystem

VOM
VOM
Virtual
Virtual environment
environment

Physical environment

App
1

App
2

VCS
VCS

App
3

App
4

CFSH
CFSH
A
A

App
1

App
5

App
3

App
3

App
2

App
6

App
7

App
8

App
9

CFSH
CFSH
A
A

CFSH
CFSH
A
A

SF
SF

SF
SF

DMP
DMP

VCS
VCS

VCS
VCS

VCS
VCS

VCS
VCS

SF
SF
VCS
VCS

OS

OS

Hypervisor
OS

VCS
VCS

SFHA
SFHA

DMP
DMP

Hypervisor
OS

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

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Lesson summary
Key points
VCS new features are aimed at simplifying HA and DR
management.
Virtualization enhancements enable you to build resilient
private cloud environments.

Reference materials
Veritas Operations Manager guides
Virtual Business ServiceAvailability User's Guide
Veritas Volume Replicator Administrators Guide
www.symantec.com/enterprise/datacenter

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