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Arda Oral
Professional Services Engineer
Use Case: DB Backup Workflow with DB Snapshot Postprocessing
Goal
Hava a fallback database available which can be used immediately
Problem:Some hosts/databases detect SCSI ID change of clones which prevent immediate database start on lunclones.
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Agenda
Scope of WorkEnvironmentWorkflowCaution with IgroupsImplementation Workflow (Test Environment)Implementation WorkflowImplementation Snap Creation/Deletion,
LUN DestroyImplementation Lun CloningDemonstration
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Scope of Work
Customer wants a snapshot-scheduled automated fallback solution for the Informix database
snapshots-based lun clones connected to fallback database transparently
Fast fallback activation needed if necessary
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Environment
Solaris Servers are SAN connected to NetApp Storage System
Informix Database uses LUNs as raw device pool
nightly-created LUNClones connected to Fallback Informix Database on Fallback Solaris Server (secondary)
Fallback Solaris Server must not rescan for new devices when connected to LUNCLONES (no new SCSI IDs)
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Environment
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Informix on Solaris - primary
Informix on Solaris - secondary(Fallback – nightly)
FAS6200FC LUNsInformix raw devices
FC LUNCLONEs Informix raw deviceswith same LUN serial number
nightlycloning
Workflow
stop fallback Informix DB (secondary) delete old snapshot (containing LUNCLONEs created 24h ago) stop Informix DB (nightly at 01:00 AM) on primary create snapshot of Volume containing Informix raw device
LUNs (primary) restart Informix DB on primary (nightly at ~ 01:01 AM) create clones of raw device LUNs based on new snapshot copy LUN serial numbers to clones, so the SCSI IDs don‘t
change (LUNCLONEs must be offline for this) take LUNCLONEs online start fallback Informix DB (secondary) with lunclones of new
snapshot
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Caution with Igroups
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Igroup1
Igroup2
Lun1SR: 10123
Lun2 (clone)SR: 10123
Due to the same serialnumber (SR) Lun1 and Lun2 are the same Lun for the filesystem (same SCSI ID).
Connecting Igroup1 to Lun2 could cause severe damage (data loss, inconsistent LUN)
/dev/rdsk/c0d010123
/dev/rdsk/c0d010123
Implementation Workflow (Test Environment) create volume
vol create vol_naptest1 -s none aggr0 2genable deleting non-recent snapshots (busy snapshot problem)vol options vol_naptest1 snapshot_clone_dependency on
create 2 test lunslun create -s 100m -t linux /vol/vol_naptest1/lun1.lunlun create -s 100m -t linux /vol/vol_naptest1/lun2.lun
create 2 Igroups igroup create -i -t linux igroup1 iqn.1991-05.com.linux:kronenbourg.brauerei.local
igroup create -i -t linux host2 iqn.1991-05.com.linux:kronenbourg2.brauerei.local
in production: connect luns to informix server
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Implementation Workflow
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stop secondary Informix DB
destroy lunclones and delete old snapshot (backing lunclones)
Lun_destroy_all_in_Volume.pl, snap_delete.pl
stop primary Informix DB
create snapshot for lun cloning./snap.pl korn vol_naptest1 snap1
restart primary Informix DB
create clones based on this snapshot snap1 for igroup1 (igroup1 = secondary),
map clones to igroup1
./lunclone.pl korn vol_naptest1 snap1 igroup1
24 hours later delete clones in Volume vol_naptest1./Lun_destroy_all_in_Volume.pl korn vol_naptest1
Delete snapshot backing clones ./Snap_delete.pl korn vol_naptest1 snap1
Restart Workflow
Implementation Snap Creation/Deletion, LUN Destroy
$out = $s->invoke("snapshot-create", "volume",$vol, "snapshot",$snapname);
$out = $s->invoke("snapshot-delete", "volume",$vol, "snapshot",$snapname);
$out=$s->invoke("lun-destroy“ , "path","$clone_lunpath","force","true");
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Implementation Lun Cloning
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getting parent luns of a volume @luns=get_lun_from_vol();
Check if provided IGROUP is mapped to LUNcheck_if_lun_mapped_to_igroup
create clone lun path (prefix of clone „igroupname“) create_lun_path($element)(/vol/vol1/lun1 -> /vol/vol1/igroup1_lun1)
get serial number of parent lunlun_get_serial($element)
Implementation Lun Cloning
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create the clone ifself lunclone_create($element, \%lunhash );
take clone offline lun_offline($lunhash{clone_lunpath});
set parent luns serial number to clone lun_set_serial($lunhash{clone_lunpath},$lunhash{serial});
map the cloned lun to the provided igroup lun_map(\%lunhash);
take clone online lun_online($lunhash{clone_lunpath});
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