Manual transparent switchover, Hp 3par peer persistence—working principle – HP 3PAR Operating System Software User Manual

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Figure 45 HP 3PAR Peer Persistence—Working Principle

To summarize the switchover:

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Synchronous remote-copy volumes are created on source and target arrays using the same
WWN addresses.

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The source and target volumes are exported to the same host set from both arrays using
different target port groups supported by persona 11 (VMware).

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Using ALUA, paths to the source volumes are presented as active, and paths to target volumes
are presented as standby.

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The HP 3PAR Quorum Witness—which must be on a third site—is configured and connected
to both arrays by using a non-remote-copy link.

Manual Transparent Switchover

A manual transparent switchover is initiated by issuing the setrcopygroup switchover
command on a remote-copy group-by-group basis on the current primary storage system. The
following sequence of actions is executed as part of the switchover operation (see

Figure 46 (page

138)

):

1.

The source array target port group is changed to transition state.

2.

The source array sends a remote failover request to the secondary array.

3.

The target array target port group is changed to transition state.

4.

The target array takes a recovery point snapshot.

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