About creating global service groups
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About creating global service groups

The process of creating a global cluster environment involves:

• Creating a common service group on specified local clusters and on clusters at a remote location
• Making sure the common service group is capable of being brought online on the local and remote clusters
• Designating the remote clusters as failover targets for the common service group (adding remote clusters)
• Converting the service group that is common to all the clusters to a global service group (creating the global service group)

After you set up the global cluster environment, you can configure global cluster heartbeats to monitor the health of the failover target clusters. Use the Cluster Management Console to create global service groups, to add and delete remote clusters, and to create and monitor cluster heartbeats.

See How VCS global clusters work.