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Unicast-based heartbeat
Dynamic host name change
Offers two types for dynamically changing the host name: Temporary or permanent.
Cluster split and merge handling policies
Operator-managed manual failover policy for multisite linked clusters.
Cluster Aware AIX (CAA) enhancements
Scalability (CAA now supports up to 32 nodes)
Dynamic host name and IP address support
Unicast support (supports IP unicast and IP multicast)
IBM HyperSwap enhancements
Active-active sites
One node HyperSwap
Auto resynchronization of mirroring
Node level unmanage mode support
Enhanced repository disk swap management
Dynamic policy management support
Enhanced verification and RAS
clmgr enhancements
Enhancements for PowerHA plug-in for Systems Director
Restore snapshot wizard
Cluster split/merge support
Cluster simulator
Smart Assist Enhancements for SAP
Support for SAP instance installation variations supported by SAP
Support for local configuration installation for SAP instances
Pure Java stack support
Multiple SIDs support
SAP configuration tunables customization
Support for internal/external NFS
Manual configuration enhancements
Updated support for IBM Systems Director
Resource group configuration enhancements (miscellaneous data, dependencies, etc.)
Federated Security
for single-point-of-control, cluster-wide security management.
SAP LiveCache Hot Standby
for fast failover with IBM DS8000 and SAN Volume Controller (SVC).
Smart Assist enhancements
Addition of MQSeries Smart Assist to the Smart Assist portfolio for out-of-the-box
middleware high availability management. Some of the Smart Assists also have been
qualified for later versions of middleware products.
Support for Mirror pools in Cluster Single Point of Control (C-SPOC)
Disk renaming across the cluster
Get the same name on each node
Display the UUID
Third party disk support
The ability to use EMC Powerpath and Hitachi HDLM multi-pathing based disks as
repository disks.
PowerHA 6.1
RSCT
Resource Monitoring
and Control
Resource Manager Group Services
Topology Services
AIX 6.1/7.1
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PowerHA 7.1
RSCT
Resource Monitoring
and Control
Resource Manager Group Services
CAA
AIX 6.1/7.1
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Host 1
Unicast
(Ring)
Host 3
Host 1
MULTICAST
Host 3
+ Host 1
Unicast
(Any to any)
Host 3
Host 4
Host 4 Host 4
Host 2
Uses one network for Heartbeat
Network with fastest roundtrip time used
TCP/IP Keep Alive messages sent on
remaining networks
All IP networks use a any to any Host 3
Host 1
connection
Unicast
(Any to any)
Host 4
Example: lscluster -m
node1:/ # lscluster -m
Calling node query for all nodes...
Node query number of nodes examined: 2
. . .
Interface State Protocol Status
SRC_IP->DST_IP
-----------------------------------------
tcpsock->03 UP IPv4 none
192.168.1.1->192.168.1.2
pha_cluster
net_ether_02
net_ether_01
clmgr has a new option to override such that temp changes behaves the same as
permanent change
[ TEMP_HOSTNAME={disallow|allow} ]
X
Two site cluster Two site cluster
Split Cluster 1 Cluster Merge
2
Split/Merge Policies
Administrator prompts
Cluster will wait for Admin inputs
Optional Policy: After N prompts
allow auto-recovery
Custom action scripts can invoked at
the time of split or merge as well
site down
Defaults X
Number of prompts (N)=infinite
Interval between notifications: once in
30 seconds and then increasing in
frequency
Auto-Recovery after N prompts cluster split
clmgr improvements
Storage Mirroring
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Standard Enterprise
Site 1 Site 2
PowerHA 7.1.2 Tie Breaker Support Cluster
Separate Site Split and Merge policies
Split/Merge: Tie Breaker policy
FC/iSCSI Tie Breaker
SCSI 3 reservation disk
Losing side is queisced. SCSI or iSCSI
Shared Disk
Tie Breaker
More suited
Suited for Linked
for Linked Clusters
Clusters
Site 3
HyperSwap Technology
HA/DR
Continuous Availability against Storage
Hyperswap
failures
Technology
Application
Substitutes storage secondary to take the
place of failed primary device
Cluster
Non-disruptive - applications keep running
Key value add to HA/DR deployments Hyperswap
Sync
Customer Benefits
Mirror
Unplanned HyperSwap:
Continuous Availability against
storage failures Primary DS8K Secondary DS8K
Planned HyperSwap: Site 1 Site 2
Storage Maintenance without
Legend:
downtime Active Path
Storage migration without Passive Path
downtime
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AIX AIX
PowerHA PowerHA
Device Driver
Fig 1: Out of band control of DS8K Series Storage Fig 2: Inband control of DS8800 Storage
Application/LVM/Middleware Application/LVM/Middleware
/dev/hdiskX
HyperSwap Pair
SYNC
SYNC
Site 1 Site 2
HyperSwap coordination across hosts and sites N1 N2 N3 N4
Planned or unplanned HyperSwap based on multi host
synchronization
SYNC
S1 S2
Active-Passive Sites
< 100 KM
Active-Active workload within a site
Active-Passive across sites Fig 1: Active-Passive HyperSwap
Continuous availability for site storage outages
Site 1 Site 2
Active-Active Sites (Future) Oracle RAC
Active-Active workload across sites (Active) (Active) (Active) (Active)
Continuous availability of site compute N1-1 N1-2 N2-1 N2-2
infrastructure and storage outages
Oracle RAC long distance deployment
SYNC
S1 S2
< 100 KM
Wizards
Cluster Create Wizard
Single Site and Multi Site deployment
Resource Group Creation Wizard
Custom and Smart Assist based RG
deployment
SAP liveCache HotStandby solution Wizard
Federated Security Setup Wizard
Volume Group Create Wizard
Support for LVM Mirror Pools
Replication (Mirror) Group Wizard
HyperSwap Setup
Management Enhancements
Repository Disk/s Management
Resource Groups management
Snapshots, networks, log files etc
Reports Management
Notifications management
Event driven callouts
Capacity upgrade based fallovers
HyperSwap Management
File collections
Discussion - Questions
Stefan.Gocke@t-online.de
BACKUP CHARTS
Customer Benefits:
Centralized Security Administration Cluster 2
Simplified Encrypted file system mgmt
Cluster 3
Role based PowerHA administration
Federated Security
Note:
If youre going to use LDAP, the listed software requirements must be present.
The LDAP server can be either IBM TDS, or Microsoft Active Directory; both are supported.
It is necessary to configure rsh between the cluster nodes and the LDAP server. Also, note
that the expect facility must be present.
ha_op HA Operator
Can perform tasks:
Start and Stop Workload Resource Groups
Monitor the Workload health
Target Delegation: Workload management within the cluster
ha_mon HA Monitor
Can perform tasks:
Monitor the current status of certain Smart Assists and workloads
Helpful to assign to Database administrator and such person
ha_view HA View
Has the least amount of Privileges
Can perform tasks:
View SystemMirror log files
Target delegation: Support Personnel
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Encrypted Keys
Data (Store)
Could be LDAP
Master Standby
SAP SAP
PowerHA liveCache PowerHA
liveCache
Log
Volume
Data Data
Volumes FlashCopy Volumes
DS8K / SVC
Mirror Pool
Collection of disks in a volume group containing logical volume copies
Available only for scalable volume groups
Logical volume does not cross mirror pool boundary
Mirror pools do not cross volume groups
Names are arbitrary, and need be unique only to a volume group
Super Strict mirror pools
Each mirror pool contains a complete mirror copy of each logical volume
[Entry Fields]
[Entry Fields]
* Application Controller Name []
* Start Script []
* Stop Script []
Application Monitor Name(s) +
Application startup mode [background] +
Original design started all user supplied scripts in the background (ksh &)
such that cluster events would not hang or fail because of poorly written
user supplied scripts
Mount Guard
Private Networks
Improved configuration
Can change network attribute without redefinition, provided cluster is down
Restriction to be removed in the service stream
Repository Resilience
In PowerHA 7.1.0, the node shuts down on when the repository disk fails
Disk failure or lost connection
On repository failure
Message posted to hacmp.out
Repeated on config_too_long pattern
DARE and sync continue to function, but any CAA topology changes are rejected
These settings can be modified from command line using clmgr command
Clmgr modify cluster HEARTBEAT_FREQUENCY= 10000 GRACE_PERIOD=5000
The settings will take effect only after the next sync
The settings for heartbeat are The settings for heartbeat are
Grace period Grace period
Failure Cycle Failure cycle
Interval between Heartbeats
Grace period is the waiting time period after detecting Grace period is the waiting time period after detecting
the Failure before it is reported. the Failure before it is reported.
Supported Migrations
Rolling, snapshot, and offline migrations are supported from the following versions:
Version 5.4.1, Version 5.5.0, Version 6.1.0
Since both are CAA based, you do not use the AIX clmigcheck command.
The only types of migration supported when migrating from version 7.1.0 are
snapshot
offline migration
Additional Resources
PowerHA Website
www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/availability/
PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 Beta Program.June time frame contact me if your interested
Availability Factory
Contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner and they will contact us via e-mail (hacoc@us.ibm.com) to learn more.
Key dates:
General Availability: September 10, 2010
Lifecycle information:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/index_h.html
Offerings:
Standard Edition has base function plus Smart Assists
New features added to Enterprise Edition 6.1 (only) no 7.1 EE
Disk Handling
ECMVGs now required
Disk fencing to protect against improper usage of disks
Director Agent
Automatically installed on AIX 7.1 & AIX V6.1 TL06 AIX
PowerHA Director
P D
Agent
P D
P D
Secure communication
P D
Director Server
Central point of control
P D
Supported on AIX,
Linux, and Windows
P D Agent manager
Discovery of clusters
P D and resources
Monitoring Services
All communication interfaces are monitored
Cluster Aware AIX tells you what interfaces have been discovered on a node and
information on those interfaces including state
All monitors implemented at a low-level of the AIX kernel, therefore they are largely
insensitive to system load
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