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August 27th, 2015 11:00
RP & GFS
Can someone pl. explain how recover point replication solution can replicate luns that are shared between clustered nodes and clustered GFS file system?
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Sujata
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August 27th, 2015 20:00
Assuming you are talking about Red Hat GFS, and RecoverPoint/SE, /EX or /CL. RecoverPoint is a block-level solution. Data is replicated by replicating any writes to the protected luns. The writes are split down multiple paths - one path goes to the RecoverPoint appliance which handles the replication of the writes, and the other path goes to the target LUN.
Those splits happen at the array level, assuming you are using a recent version of RecoverPoint. When any of the hosts in the cluster send a write I/O to the array to a protected LUN, a splitter in the array handles the work of sending the I/O to the RP appliance. It doesn't care which host is performing the write - it's just yet another initiator sending a write to the target.
What is replicated is a "crash consistent copy." You create a consistency group within RecoverPoint that contains all the target luns you want kept consistent within themselves. RecoverPoint ensures that all writes to the LUN's in the consistency group maintain their write order. Thus, although your copy isn't necessary synchronized with an application or filesystem checkpoint, it's is consistent in the same way they would be consistent after a crash of the array, the SAN, etc.
The OS of the host that is attempting to use the replicated copy will perform normal filesystem cleanup that occurs after a crash, then mark the filesystem clean.
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August 28th, 2015 06:00
Thanks for the reply.
Yes it is Red hat linux GFS and RP EX 4.1.1.
We do have CGs and all luns for the cluster are in one CG, it is very well explained by you in last paragraph of your reply about crash consistent copy.
Linux team has concerns about write order in particular for GFS, but your reply explains how FS will be marked clean at DR location.