[Veritas-ha] Is VxVM mirror supported in VCS GCO option?

2007-12-28 Thread Pavel A Tsvetkov
Hello all! Just one interesting question about VCS GCO. I was told that VxVM mirror is not supported if using with Global Cluster Option. Only replicated volumes can be used ... Is it true? It seems strange to me... Why not? I think it is quite possible to failover mirrored VxVM volume

Re: [Veritas-ha] Is VxVM mirror supported in VCS GCO option?

2007-12-28 Thread Gene Henriksen
To mirror volumes you must be dealing with a relatively small distance, such as less than 80K. For these distances, why not use a single cluster called a stretch or campus cluster? In SF 5.0 there is the concept of site awareness so that VM is aware of the two sites and if a volume at the remote

Re: [Veritas-ha] Is VxVM mirror supported in VCS GCO option?

2007-12-28 Thread Jim Senicka
We made a decision to not support VxVM mirror in a GCO environment because it breaks our ability to use SCSI-III based fencing. While you could make the mirror work, it is not a Symantec supported configuration. For dual cluster configs we would require some form of replication.