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What's New in HP-UX, Linux, and Disaster-Tolerant Clustering Solutions?

Learn about the latest improvements in HP-UX clustering solutions, disaster-tolerant solutions, and advancements in MC/ServiceGuard for Linux. Explore increased package support, enhanced cluster management, and more.

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What's New in HP-UX, Linux, and Disaster-Tolerant Clustering Solutions?

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  1. What's New in HP-UX, Linux, and Disaster-Tolerant Clustering Solutions? John Foxcroft HA Clusters Training Consultant Hewlett-Packard Cupertino, California Availability Clusters Solutions Lab Phone: 408-447-5431, Fax: 408-447-0056 Email: John_Foxcroft@hp.com

  2. Agenda • Overview • hp’s ha strategy • MC/ServiceGuard Review • What’s New with HP’s HA Clustering Solutions • What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for HP-UX • What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for Linux • What’s new in ServiceGuard OPS Edition • What’s new with Disaster Tolerant Solutions • For More Details…

  3. Overview Agenda • Overview • hp’s ha clustering strategy • MC/ServiceGuard Review • What’s New with HP’s HA Clustering Solutions • What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for HP-UX • What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for Linux • What’s new in ServiceGuard OPS Edition • What’s new with Disaster Tolerant Solutions • For More Details…

  4. Overview HA technology components Availability through Manageability: - Mainframe capabilities - Monitoring & Mgmt - Ease of Use OV Disaster Tolerance WAN Work with partners to improve end-to-end availability including application stack Single system Availability Multi-system Availability NW Web App DB

  5. Features Multi OS One-stop GUI Rolling upgrade Tape sharing 16 nodes No idle system Online reconfiguration Automatic Failback Rotating standby Closely integrated with OS Database Tier Application Tier Clients Overview Improvedcustomer service withmc/serviceguard

  6. Pkg A Pkg B Pkg C Overview hp mc/serviceguard:application packages • Simple, flexible framework for managing application resources Processes: App_Process_1 App_Process_2 Middleware_1 Middleware_2 Disks: lvol_data1 lvol_data2 Network: IP 56.23.101.44 Node 1

  7. Node 2 • Balance workload after a node failure • Minimize impact on remaining nodes Node 1 Pkg D Node 3 Pkg E Pkg A Node 4 Pkg A Pkg F Pkg B Pkg B If Node 1 fails... Pkg G Pkg C Pkg C Pkg H Pkg I Overview hp mc/serviceguard and built-in workload balancing

  8. 80% Oracle CRM 20% Security SAP 100% Node 2 70% Node 1 SAP 20% Oracle CRM SAP Security 10% Node 2 Overview PRM with mc/serviceguard:superior load balancing • Dynamic allocation of system resources • Load balancing for normal and post-failure operation If Node 1 fails Node 1

  9. Pkg D Pkg E Pkg A Pkg D Pkg F Pkg A Pkg B Pkg F Pkg B Pkg C Pkg E Pkg G Pkg C Pkg G Pkg H Pkg H Pkg I Pkg I Overview mc/serviceguard:rolling upgrade • Rolling upgrade: minimize planned downtime • Maximize application uptime • Cluster remains up Backward compatibility: - Operating system - MC/ServiceGuard Hardware or software upgrades... ...then roll through the cluster

  10. What’s New Agenda • Overview • hp’s ha clustering strategy • MC/ServiceGuard Review • What’s New with HP’s HA Clustering Solutions • What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for HP-UX • What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for Linux • What’s new in ServiceGuard OPS Edition • What’s new with Disaster Tolerant Solutions • For More Details…

  11. What’s New What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for HP-UX • Some of the recent enhancements to MC/ServiceGuard for HP-UX: • Quorum server • Performance improvements in large system environments for package startup and shutdown • IPv6 phase 1 (dual IPv4/IPv6 kernel) • VERITAS 3.2 (VxVM and CVM) • Support for 150 packages in a cluster • VLAN support • Extended distance clusters up to 100 km using DWDM • vPar and SuperDome support • ServiceGuard Manager – cluster administration, SNMP dynamic event notification and support for Windows XP • ECMT enhancements: Oracle 9i and Informix 9.21 • Support of IPF (Itanium Processor Family) systems (HP-UX 11i version 1.6) • And more…

  12. What’s New What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for Linux • Some of the recent enhancements to MC/ServiceGuard for Linux: • 8 node fibrechannel clusters, • Support for new XP arrays, VA and SCSI storage, • Support additional NetServers, • AutoPath support, • Disaster Tolerant Cluster Solutions integrating MC/SG for Linux and Cluster Extension XP software (CLX) for the HP StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays • And more…

  13. What’s New What’s new in ServiceGuard OPS Edition • Some of the recent enhancements to ServiceGuard OPS Edition: • Support 9i RAC (new name for Oracle OPS) • Online add/delete nodes using CVM/11i • 16 nodes support with LVM • VERITAS VxVM and CVM (max 4 nodes) Support • 127 OPS instances per cluster • Quorum server • Performance improvements in large system environments for package startup and shutdown • IPv6 phase 1 (dual IPv4/IPv6 kernel) • VERITAS 3.2 (VxVM and CVM) • Support for 150 packages in a cluster • VLAN support • Support of IPF systems (HP-UX 11i version 1.6) • Support for Oracle RAC 8.1.7, 9.1 and IA RAC 9.2 • Name change on IA: ServiceGuard Extension for RAC (SGeRAC) • And more…

  14. What’s New What’s new with Disaster Tolerant Solutions • Some of the recent enhancements to MetroCluster and ContinentalClusters: • MetroCluster • Support for Quorum Server • Support for XP128/1024 arrays • MetroCluster support up to 100 km using DWDM • vPar and SuperDome Support • ContinentalClusters • Support for Quorum Server • Support DWDM configurations • Support synchronous CA over IP • Support EMC MxN configurations • vPar and SuperDome Support • And more…

  15. More Details Agenda • Overview • hp’s ha clustering strategy • MC/ServiceGuard Review • What’s New with HP’s HA Clustering Solutions • What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for HP-UX • What’s new in MC/ServiceGuard for Linux • What’s new in ServiceGuard OPS Edition • What’s new with Disaster Tolerant Solutions • For More Details…

  16. More Details For more Details • For the complete slide set with additional details on each enhancement, please attend the live presentation at HP World 2002. • You can also request the complete slide set following HP World 2002 by sending and email request to: John_Foxcroft@hp.com

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