Using this Guide with Your Disaster Tolerant Cluster Products

Chapter 2, "Building an Extended Distance Cluster with MC/ServiceGuard," shows different types of extended distance clusters using standard MC/ServiceGuard (B3935BA).

Chapter 3, "Building a Metropolitan Cluster Using MetroCluster with Continuous Access XP," describes the metropolitan cluster architecture as implemented with the HP StorageWorks E Disk Array XP Series and the Continuous Access XP software. This chapter is intended for users of MetroCluster with Continuous Access XP (B8109BA).

Chapter 4, "Building a Metropolitan Cluster Using MetroCluster with EMC SRDF," describes the metropolitan cluster architecture as implemented with the EMC Symmetrix disk arrays and the EMC SRDF facility. This chapter is intended for users of MetroCluster with EMC SRDF (B6264BA).

Chapter 5, "Building a Continental Cluster," presents the steps for creating a wide area configuration using the ContinentalClusters product together with various data replication products, including Continuous Access XP and EMC SRDF This chapter is intended for users of ContinentalClusters (B7659BA).

Chapter 6, "Physical Data Replication for ContinentalClusters Using Continuous Access XP," is intended for users of physical data replication with the HP StorageWorks E Disk Array XP Series in a continental cluster.

Chapter 7, "Physical Data Replication for ContinentalClusters Using EMC SRDF," is intended for users of physical data replication with the EMC Symmetrix disk array and EMC SRDF in a continental cluster.

Chapter 8, "Cascading Failover in a Continental Cluster," describes a specific configuration using the EMC Symmetrix disk array to provide data replication with disaster recovery between a metropolitan cluster in one geographic region and an ordinary ServiceGuard cluster in another region.