USING SRDF/METRO IN A VMWARE METRO STORAGE CLUSTER RUNNING ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE AND 12C RAC DEMONSTRATING INTERO PERABILITY OF SRDF/METRO AND VMWARE, USING ORACLE APPLICATIONS RUNNING ON AN EXTENDED RAC CLUSTER Abstract This white paper discusses how to configure SRDF/Metro on a VMware Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) configured with an Oracle Applications environment running on Oracle Extended RAC. November 2016 VMAX Engineering Copyright © 2016 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. EMC believes the information in this publication is accurate of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. The information in this publication is provided “as is.” EMC Corporation makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the information in this publication, and specifically disclaims implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. 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Part Number h14577.3 2 Table of Contents Executive summary.................................................................................................. 6 Audience ............................................................................................................................ 6 Document scope and limitations ........................................................................................ 7 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 7 VMAX3 with HYPERMAX OS 5977 ............................................................................. 8 EMC Unisphere for VMAX ......................................................................................... 8 Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) .................................................................... 9 SRDF/Metro ........................................................................................................... 10 Bias and Witness .............................................................................................................. 11 SRDF/Metro limitations .................................................................................................... 14 VAAI support ................................................................................................................ 15 VMware Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) ................................................................... 16 VMware vMSC and SRDF/Metro ........................................................................................ 17 Uniform and Nonuniform vMSC ........................................................................................ 17 SRDF/Metro Witness in vMSC ........................................................................................... 18 SRDF/Metro and vMSC Failure Handling ....................................................................... 20 Setting up SRDF/Metro .......................................................................................... 21 SRDF group creation ......................................................................................................... 21 Physical Witness .......................................................................................................... 22 Virtual Witness (vWitness) ............................................................................................ 25 SRDF/Metro pair creation ................................................................................................. 27 Oracle Applications 12 .......................................................................................... 35 Applications Architecture ................................................................................................. 35 Working with FAST and Oracle Applications ...................................................................... 36 FAST elements .............................................................................................................. 37 Oracle Applications Tablespace Model ......................................................................... 38 Oracle Applications implementation ................................................................................. 39 Oracle Applications deployment ................................................................................... 39 Hardware layout ........................................................................................................... 41 FAST configuration for Oracle Applications ................................................................... 41 Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on SRDF/Metro ........................................... 43 Extended RAC and Oracle Clusterware .............................................................................. 43 Oracle RAC and Oracle E-Business Suite ........................................................................... 44 Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on VMFS ............................................................... 44 3 Oracle Clusterware deployment .................................................................................... 45 Oracle Extended RAC installation ...................................................................................... 45 Procedure ..................................................................................................................... 46 Networking ................................................................................................................... 47 VMware Cluster Configuration with SRDF/Metro ..................................................... 48 vSphere HA ...................................................................................................................... 49 Heartbeating ................................................................................................................ 50 Polling time for datastore paths.................................................................................... 53 All Paths Down (APD) and Permanent Data Loss (PDL) ...................................................... 54 VMCP ........................................................................................................................... 54 PDL VMCP settings ....................................................................................................... 56 vMSC recommendations for PDL ................................................................................... 56 APD VMCP settings ....................................................................................................... 58 vMSC recommendations for APD .................................................................................. 60 VMware VM/Host Groups and VM/Host Rules .................................................................. 60 Best practices with VMware HA and SRDF/Metro .............................................................. 64 Viewing VMAX3 in vSphere .................................................................................... 65 EMC Virtual Storage Integrator .......................................................................................... 65 Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 67 References ............................................................................................................ 68 EMC .................................................................................................................................. 68 VMware ............................................................................................................................ 69 Oracle .............................................................................................................................. 69 Appendix A ........................................................................................................... 70 SRDF/Metro maintenance ................................................................................................. 70 Adding new pairs to an existing SRDF/Metro group ...................................................... 70 VM mobility ...................................................................................................................... 73 Appendix B – SRDF/Metro with VMware Site Recovery Manager .............................. 77 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 6.1 ..................................................................... 77 Environment ..................................................................................................................... 78 Configuration ................................................................................................................... 81 SRDF SRA 6.1 ............................................................................................................... 81 Stretched Storage - Tags, Categories and Storage Policies ............................................ 83 Stretched Storage - Protection Group ............................................................................ 91 Stretched Storage - Recovery Plan ...............................................................................