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IBM Rational ClearCase support for AIX PowerHA

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Abstract

This document describes AIX PowerHA concepts, explains AIX PowerHA configuration, and provides instructions for configuring IBM Rational ClearCase on AIX PowerHA. This document describes the similarities and differences between configuring Rational ClearCase on AIX PowerHA and on Veritas Clustering System (VCS). Further, the document outlines what can be expected of ClearCase performance when ClearCase fails over in the AIX PowerHA environment.

Content

Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 PURPOSE
1.1.1 Scope
1.2 DEFINITIONS, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATION
1.3 REFERENCES
2 AIX HACMP OVERVIEW
2.1 HIGH AVAILABILITY V/S HARDWARE AVAILABILITY
2.2 HIGH AVAILABILITY V/S FAULT TOLERANCE
2.3 CLUSTER RESOURCES, RESOURCE GROUPS AND POLICIES
2.4 SERVER NODES AND CLIENT NODES
2.5 SUBNET ROUTING REQUIREMENTS IN POWERHA
2.6 IP ADDRESS TAKEOVER
2.6.1 IPAT via IP aliases
2.6.2 IPAT via IP replacement
3 AIX POWERHA CONFIGURATION
3.1 PLANNING
3.1.1 Cluster Overview Planning
3.1.2 Hardware Planning
3.1.3 Planning Cluster Software
3.1.4 PowerHA Software Bundle
3.1.5 Application Software
3.1.6 Licensing
3.2 CONFIGURATION
3.2.1 Define Cluster name and nodes
3.2.2 Configure PowerHA Networks
3.2.3 Configure PowerHA communication interfaces
3.2.4 Configure PowerHA service IP labels/addresses
3.2.5 Start cluster services
3.2.6 Configure shared volume group
3.2.7 Configure shared filesystem
3.2.8 Monitoring status of nodes in the cluster
4 CLEARCASE CONFIGURATION FOR POWERHA
4.1 GENERAL CLEARCASE CONFIGURATION CONSIDERATIONS
4.2 TYPES OF POWERHA CONFIGURATION
4.2.1 Standby Configuration – Standard
4.3 CLEARCASE RESOURCE GROUP
4.3.1 PowerHA ClearCase resource group configuration
4.4 APPLICATION SERVER
4.4.1 Start Script – cconline
4.4.2 Stop Script – ccoffline
4.4.3 Cleanup Method – ccclean
4.4.4 Monitor Method – status.sh
4.4.5 PowerHA Application Server configuration
4.4.6 Configuration for PowerHA Application monitoring
4.4.7 Defining PowerHA resource group attributes
4.5 CLEARCASE STARTUP CONFIGURATION
4.6 ALTERNATE HOSTNAMES
4.7 REGISTRY SERVER
4.8 LICENSE SERVER
4.9 VIEW AND VOB SERVERS
4.9.1 Shared storage on SAN
4.9.2 Shared storage on NAS or NFS mount
5 CLEARCASE CLIENT RECOVERY ON SERVER FAILOVER

IBM Rational ClearCase support for AIX PowerHA.pdf

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Product Synonym

AIX HACMP

Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

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