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Handling automatic transparent failover, Vmware vmsc certification—uniform host access – HP 3PAR Operating System Software User Manual

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Figure 52 VMware vMSC Certification—Uniform Host Access

Uniform host access provides:

Protection against storage failure

Active load balancing

Handling Automatic Transparent Failover

To handle automatic failover, each HP 3PAR StoreServ stores its individual quorum state. Quorums
can be in one of the following states:

Not started

Initializing

Started

Failover

Failsafe

The failure of HP 3PAR StoreServ array A will result in loss of remote-copy links and updates to the
quorum witness. A peer-persistence failover is automatically initiated on HP 3PAR StoreServ SystemB,
which now becomes the source. When HP 3PAR StoreServ SystemA recovers, and remote-copy
links are re-established, SystemA notices that SystemB is now the source. See

Figure 53 (page 144)

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HP 3PAR Peer Persistence Quorum

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