Arda Oral Professional Services Engineer Use Case: DB Backup Workflow with DB Snapshot Postprocessing 1 NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

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. 2

Agenda  Scope of Work  Environment  Workflow  Caution with Igroups  Implementation Workflow (Test Environment)  Implementation Workflow  Implementation Snap Creation/Deletion, LUN Destroy  Implementation Lun Cloning  Demonstration 3

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 4

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) 5

Environment 6 Informix on Solaris - primary Informix on Solaris - secondary (Fallback – nightly) FAS6200 FC LUNs Informix raw devices FC LUNCLONEs Informix raw devices with same LUN serial number nightly cloning

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 7

Caution with Igroups 8 Igroup1 Igroup2 Lun1 SR: Lun2 (clone) SR: 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

Implementation Workflow (Test Environment)  create volume vol create vol_naptest1 -s none aggr0 2g enable deleting non-recent snapshots (busy snapshot problem) vol options vol_naptest1 snapshot_clone_dependency on  create 2 test luns lun create -s 100m -t linux /vol/vol_naptest1/lun1.lun lun create -s 100m -t linux /vol/vol_naptest1/lun2.lun  create 2 Igroups  igroup create -i -t linux igroup1 iqn com.linux:kronenbourg.brauerei.local  igroup create -i -t linux host2 iqn com.linux:kronenbourg2.brauerei.local  in production: connect luns to informix server 9

Implementation Workflow 10 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"); 11

Implementation Lun Cloning 12 getting parent luns of a Check if provided IGROUP is mapped to LUN check_if_lun_mapped_to_igroup create clone lun path (prefix of clone „igroupname“) create_lun_path($element) (/vol/vol1/lun1 -> /vol/vol1/igroup1_lun1) get serial number of parent lun lun_get_serial($element)

Implementation Lun Cloning 13 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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