HP P6000 Replication Solutions Manager Administrator Guide (T3680-96069, June 2012)

Contents
1 Replication manager overview.....................................................................8
Replication manager features.....................................................................................................8
Discovery............................................................................................................................9
Changing the discovery and refresh interval.......................................................................9
Jobs...................................................................................................................................9
Events................................................................................................................................9
Managed sets...................................................................................................................10
Host agents.......................................................................................................................10
Online help.......................................................................................................................10
HP P6000 Continuous Access and P6000 DC-Management....................................................10
Local replication concepts .......................................................................................................10
Snapshots.........................................................................................................................10
Snapshot types.............................................................................................................11
Snapshot guidelines......................................................................................................11
Snapclones.......................................................................................................................11
Mirrorclones .....................................................................................................................12
Mirrorclone guidelines ..................................................................................................12
Synchronized mirrorclone guidelines ...............................................................................13
Fractured mirrorclone guidelines .....................................................................................13
Mirrorclone states .........................................................................................................13
Instant restore....................................................................................................................14
Guidelines for instant restore...........................................................................................14
Using instant restore when a virtual disk is mounted...........................................................15
Verifying instant restore data...........................................................................................15
Containers........................................................................................................................15
Remote replication concepts.....................................................................................................16
DR groups.........................................................................................................................16
Failover............................................................................................................................17
Vraid hierarchy and redundancy..........................................................................................17
Round robin replication......................................................................................................17
Starting the replication manager GUI........................................................................................18
From the icon (application mode).........................................................................................18
From a browser (applet mode).............................................................................................19
On a general-purpose server or dedicated management server...........................................19
Using Mozilla...............................................................................................................19
From another application....................................................................................................19
Using the replication manager CLUI..........................................................................................19
2 Setting up the replication manager.............................................................20
HP P6000 Replication Solutions Manager environment................................................................20
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................21
Upgrading controller and management software ...................................................................21
Initial replication manager setup ..............................................................................................22
Configuring account credentials................................................................................................23
Configuring HP SMI-S EVA credentials for server-based management systems.............................23
Configuring HP SMI-S EVA credentials for array-based management systems.............................23
Communicating across a firewall..............................................................................................23
Changing the host agent port...................................................................................................23
Changing the RMI port............................................................................................................24
Changing the database port....................................................................................................24
Default ports..........................................................................................................................24
Synchronizing management servers and arrays...........................................................................25
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