About the Campus Cluster solution
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About the Campus Cluster solution

This chapter presents a VCS campus clustering configuration example with InfoScale Enterprise.

The following table outlines the configuration's high-level objectives and the tasks for each objective.

Table: Task list: Campus Cluster configuration

Objectives

Tasks

See Reviewing the configuration.

  • Review the configuration requirements

  • Overview of VCS campus cluster, and recovery scenarios

See Installing and configuring the hardware.

  • Install the hardware for Site A

  • Install the hardware in the same manner for Site B

  • Make all the necessary hardware connections between the two cluster nodes

See Configuring the storage hardware and network.

  • Install the operating system on both nodes

  • Make necessary networking settings on both nodes

See About installing the Veritas InfoScale products.

Install InfoScale Enterprise. Refer to the Veritas InfoScale Installation and Upgrade Guide.

See Configuring the cluster using the Cluster Configuration Wizard.

Use the VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard (VCW) to set up the cluster

See Creating disk groups and volumes.

  • Create dynamic cluster disk groups

  • Create dynamic volumes

See Installing the application on cluster nodes.

  • Install the application program files on the local drive of the first node

  • Install files relating to the data and logs on the shared storage

  • Deport the disk groups on the first node and import them on the second node

  • Install the application on the second node

See Configuring service groups.

  • Use an appropriate method to create and configure the VCS service group or groups

  • Bring the service group online

See Verifying the cluster configuration.

  • Switch the service group to the second node

  • Switch it back to the first node
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