Using this Guide with Your Disaster Tolerant Cluster Products

The rest of this guide provides detailed, task-oriented documentation covering a variety of HP products and technologies, as follows:

Chapter 3 “Designing a Metropolitan Cluster” shows different types of extended distance clusters using standard Serviceguard (B3935BA).
Chapter 4 “Designing a Continental Cluster” presents the steps for creating a wide area configuration using the Continenalclusters product. This chapter is intended for users of Continentalclusters (T2346BA)
Chapter 5 “Building Disaster-Tolerant Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP” 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 6 “Building Disaster Tolerant Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with EMC SRDF” is intended for users of physical data replication with the HP StorageWorks E Disk Array XP Series in a continental cluster.
Chapter 7 “Cascading Failover in a Continental Cluster” is intended for users of physical data replication with the EMC Symmetrix disk array and EMC SRDF in a continental cluster.

A set of appendixes and a glossary provide additional reference information.

Technical documentation