Install the Resource Orchestrator manager on the admin servers of the switchover source and destination sites.
For details, refer to the following:
"Chapter 2 Installation" in the "Setup Guide CE"
"Chapter 3 SSL Communication Environment Settings for the ROR Console" in the "Setup Guide CE"
"Chapter 2 Login and Logout" in the "User's Guide for Infrastructure Administrators CE"
"Chapter 4 License Setup and Confirmation" in the "Setup Guide CE"
"Chapter 5 Importing a Certificate to a Browser" in the "Setup Guide CE"
For Disaster Recovery environments, configure as follows.
For details on the items to match or to be different, between the switchover source and destination sites, refer to "Chapter 2 Design".
When the environment is configured so that disaster recovery is transparent to ROR console users, SVOM and VIOM need to be installed on the admin server of the switchover destination site under either of the following conditions. Once installation is complete, the conditions do not apply.
The admin server of the switchover source site must be stopped
The network connecting to the switchover source site must be disconnected
When performing VMware virtual L-Server switchover (VM guest), install the VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface (vCLI) corresponding to the VMware vCenter Server version on the servers (such as admin servers) which can communicate with VMware vCenter Server.
When there are VMware vCenter Server 6 and VMware ESXi 6, it is necessary to configure the authentication settings, after installing the VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface (vCLI).
For details, refer to the following URL:
URL: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2108416 |
For the authentication settings, take one of the following corrective actions described in the reference:
Downloading and Installing the vCenter Server Certificate
Using the Credential Store
Certificate files in the following folder on both the switchover source and destination sites must be the same files. When installing a manager on the switchover destination site, copy the files from the switchover source site. Perform this operation after stopping the manager.
When configuring a single switchover destination site to inherit multiple switchover source sites, copy the following files of the manager on the switchover source site that is first created to the managers on the other switchover source sites.
[Windows Manager]
Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\etc\opt\FJSVssmgr\current\certificate\
Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\sys\apache\conf\ssl.crt\
Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\sys\apache\conf\ssl.key\
[Linux Manager]
/etc/opt/FJSVrcvmr/opt/FJSVssmgr/current/certificate/
/etc/opt/FJSVrcvmr/sys/apache/conf/ssl.crt/
/etc/opt/FJSVrcvmr/sys/apache/conf/ssl.key/
After installing the manager, set up SSL if necessary.
For details, refer to "Chapter 2 Installation" and "Chapter 3 SSL Communication Environment Settings for the ROR Console" in the "Setup Guide CE".
Note
The site certificate that was issued by the CA should be used for the Disaster Recovery environment.
When test certificates are used, certificates on the switchover destination site also need to be imported to the browser during installation or after switchover.
For details, refer to "Chapter 5 Importing a Certificate to a Browser" in the "Setup Guide CE".
When using Disaster Recovery, a license for the "DR option" is necessary.
After installing Resource Orchestrator, register the license for the "DR option" on the switchover source and destination sites.
For details on how to register the license, refer to "Chapter 4 License Setup and Confirmation" in the "Setup Guide CE".
For the image storage location folders of physical servers, specify the image folders created in "3.2 Creating Switchover Information Folders". For details on how to change the storage folders of image files, refer to "5.9 rcxadm imagemgr" in the "Reference Guide (Command/XML) CE".
For the Active-Active operation, set prefixes of software IDs according to "Appendix A Settings for Software ID Prefixes".
Specify the information of the failover information folders in the following definition files of the switchover source and destination sites.
[Windows Manager]
Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\etc\customize_data\fa_dr.rcxprop
[Linux Manager]
/etc/opt/FJSVrcvmr/customize_data/fa_dr.rcxprop
Lines other than the following that begin with sharp signs ("#") are comments in this definition file.
#rcxrepdef_define
#rcxstorage_define
#rcxmgrexport_define
#rcxrecovery_define
#dr_storagepool
#exclude_lserver
#salvage_define
#DR Operation Method
#Config File Switchover
Blank lines in this definition file are regarded as meaningless and skipped.
Example
[Windows Manager]
Enter the following descriptions, when using the folder configurations described as examples in "3.2 Creating Switchover Information Folders", and when mounting the switchover information folders replicated to the switchover destination site on the E drive during switchover.
For #rcxstorage_define, enter the path for the "Folder containing switchover information".
For #rcxmgrexport_define, enter the path for "Folder which contains switchover information\ManagerExport".
For #rcxrecovery_define, enter the path on which the "Folder which contains switchover information" replicated from the switchover source site after the procedure in "4.2.5 Mounting the Switchover Information Folder [Switchover Destination Site]" will be mounted.
#rcxstorage_define |
[Linux Manager]
Enter the following descriptions, when using the folder configurations described as examples in "3.2 Creating Switchover Information Folders", and when mounting the switchover information folders replicated in the switchover destination site on /DRImport during switchover.
For #rcxstorage_define, enter the path for the "Folder containing switchover information".
For #rcxmgrexport_define, enter the path for "Folder which contains switchover information/ManagerExport".
For #rcxrecovery_define, enter the path on which the "Folder which contains switchover information" replicated from the switchover source site after the procedure in "4.2.5 Mounting the Switchover Information Folder [Switchover Destination Site]" will be mounted.
#rcxstorage_define |
Information
Create the DR definition file "fa_dr.rcxprop" using the following sample files.
[Windows Manager]
Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\etc\customize_data\fa_dr.rcxprop.sample
[Linux Manager]
/etc/opt/FJSVrcvmr/customize_data/fa_dr.rcxprop.sample
When performing additional recovery after switchover operations, specify the information of the additional recovery information folder for the following definition files in the switchover source site.
[Windows Manager]
Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\etc\customize_data\fa_dr.rcxprop
[Linux Manager]
/etc/opt/FJSVrcvmr/customize_data/fa_dr.rcxprop
Example
[Windows Manager]
When using "C:\Users\Administrator\work\DRsalvage\Export" for the additional recovery information folder, describe it as follows:
#salvage_define |
[Linux Manager]
When using "/root/work/DRsalvage/Export" for the additional recovery information folder, describe it as follows:
#salvage_define |
Information
When the contents of the switchover information folder will be kept as they are after a switchover operation and will not be modified until additional recovery after failback, the switchover information folder can be specified as the additional recovery information folder.
[Windows Manager]
When "D:\Export\ManagerExport" is set for "#rcxmgrexport_define" in fa_dr.rcxprop, describe the following lines in the same file:
#salvage_define |
[Linux Manager]
When "/DRExport/Export/ManagerExport" is set for "#rcxmgrexport_define" in fa_dr.rcxprop, describe the following lines in the same file:
#salvage_define |
Before starting an additional recovery operation, ensure that the switchover information folder has not been updated by switchover information collection (through the rcxmgrexport command) after failback.
Then perform the additional recovery.
When enabling automatic takeover of configuration files, modify the following configuration file on the switchover source site:
[Windows Manager]
Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\etc\customize_data\fa_dr.rcxprop
[Linux Manager]
/etc/opt/FJSVrcvmr/customize_data/fa_dr.rcxprop
Example
When the DR operation method is Active-Active, enter the following content:
#DR Operation Method |
When the DR operation method is Active-Standby, enter the following content:
#DR Operation Method |
Information
For the files which are taken over by automatic takeover of configuration files, refer to "Appendix F Target Files of Automatic Takeover of Configuration Files".
Even when whether to enable or disable automatic takeover of configuration files is specified in the DR definition file (fa_dr.rcxprop), the value specified using the -config_file_switchover option of the batch recovery command (the rcxrecovery command), which is executed on the switchover destination site, is given priority.
For details on the rcxrecovery command, refer to "B.2 rcxrecovery".
