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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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