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Extended Service Guard cluster - 3 sites

 
Jayasuntar
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Extended Service Guard cluster - 3 sites

Hi all,

Can u please tell me what are all the things we need to take care while designing 3 site extended service guard cluster with arbitirate node on 3rd site.

Regards
Jay
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: Extended Service Guard cluster - 3 sites

You need reliable, high speed communications between the sites.

Loss of heartbeat leads to TOC and nodes crashing.

This is one thing that comes to mind.

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Kent Ostby
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Re: Extended Service Guard cluster - 3 sites

jay --

You will need to get Metro Cluster (if you are in the same Metro area) or Continental Cluster ( if you are going for a longer distance).

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Oz
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Jayasuntar
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Re: Extended Service Guard cluster - 3 sites

No need of metro or CC while designing Extended service gurd clustre..

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melvyn burnard
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Re: Extended Service Guard cluster - 3 sites

Take a read of this manual.
Chapter 2 discusses Extended CLusters

http://docs.hp.com/en/B7660-90016/B7660-90016.pdf
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Jayasuntar
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Re: Extended Service Guard cluster - 3 sites

Thanks all