Managing and Testing Clustering Support for Hitachi TrueCopy

After configuring the TrueCopy agent in a VCS environment, you can perform some basic tests to verify the implementation. This chapter describes some test scenarios and expected behavior.

These tests assume the following environment:

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Two hosts (hosta and hostb) are attached to the primary array, and the other hosts are attached to the secondary array. The application is running on hosta and devices in the local array are P-VOLs in the PAIR state.

A replicated data cluster has two dedicated heartbeat links; a global cluster has one network heartbeat. The test scenario is similar for both environments.