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IBM PowerHA SystemMirror


V7.2.3 for IBM AIX and
V7.2.2 for Linux
Dino Quintero
Jose Martin Abeleira
Adriano Almeida
Bernhard Buehler
Primitivo Cervantes
Stuart Cunliffe
Jes Kiran
Byron Martinez Martinez
Antony Steel
Oscar Humberto Torres
Stefan Velica

Redbooks
IBM Redbooks

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.3 for IBM AIX and


V7.2.2 for Linux

September 2019

SG24-8434-00
Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on
page xi.

First Edition (September 2019)

This edition applies to:


PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.3 Gold for AIX and V7.2.2 SP1 for Linux
IBM AIX 7200-01-02-1717
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) V7.5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server V12 SP3
IBM Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) V2.2.6.31 and V2.2.3.60
Hardware Management Console (HMC) V8.6 and V8.9
IBM PowerVC V1.4.1

© Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2019. All rights reserved.


Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule
Contract with IBM Corp.
Contents

Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Now you can become a published author, too! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xv
Comments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Stay connected to IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1


1.1 What is PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.1 High availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.2 Cluster multiprocessing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Availability solutions: An overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2.1 Downtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.2 Single point of failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 History and evolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3.1 PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.2 PowerHA SystemMirror Version 7.2.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.3 PowerHA SystemMirror Version 7.2.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3.4 PowerHA SystemMirror Version 7.2.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.4 HA terminology and concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.4.1 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.5 Fault tolerance versus HA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.5.1 Fault-tolerant systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.5.2 HA systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.6 Additional PowerHA resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 2. New features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15


2.1 Easy Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.1.2 Detailed description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.2 PowerHA SystemMirror User Interface enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.3 Resource Optimized High Availability enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.4 PowerHA Log Analyzer and logging enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.4.1 Logging enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.4.2 Log Analyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.5 Event handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.5.1 Event script failure option: Canceling the remaining events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.6 Additional details of changes in PowerHA SystemMirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.6.1 Log analyzer changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.6.2 Event script failure improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.6.3 Event script failure option: Canceling the remaining events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.6.4 Change to the Cluster Event infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.6.5 Administrator operation event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2.6.6 Network unstable event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.6.7 Event serial number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.7 Logical Volume Manager preferred read. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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