HP Continuous Access (CA) replicating LUNS question

  • From: "Taylor, Chris David" <Chris.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:11:16 -0500

Any of you guys/gals using HP's CA (Continuous Access) product to
replicate LUNs to a remote location?
 
We tested it on several of our LUNS (non-clustered servers) and it
seemed to work well.
 
HOWEVER, when we turned it on for our Oracle Failsafe Cluster (Microsoft
Clustering), our Cluster became non-responsive.
 
We're only replicating our backup drive (non-datafiles, non-quorum lun).
The backup LUN (Z:\ drive) is a resource within the cluster but I cannot
think of why the cluster might have become unstable due to this issue.
 
We tried failing the cluster over and it would not fail over.
 
So I was curious if anyone was using the CA product on a Microsoft
Cluster and if you had any thoughts on "gotchas" or things to consider
when replicating resource LUNS?
 
Thanks
 
Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205
Office: 615-517-3355
Cell: 615-354-4799
Email: chris.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 

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