HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.2 User Guide

Setting up sites
Sites allow you to manually group resources under one name for easier management. You can define
your own site and register resources such as hosts and storage systems. Grouping of resources into
logical sites is especially useful when you have remote sites. Although you can define logical sites
with any combination of resources, managing many resources from the web interface is easier when
logical sites are created based on the resources of actual sites.
To set up logical sites, from the Explorer menu, choose Shared Views and then Sites.
For details on how to add sites, see “Adding sites” on page 97.
Related topics
• Adding storage systems to a site, page 99
• Adding hosts to a site, page 98
• Adding pair management servers to a site, page 100
About sites
With Replication Manager, you can define logical sites in the GUI just as you would define actual
physical sites (actual data centers). If you set up separate sites, you can manage resources more
efficiently because it is easier to locate a required resource among many resources displayed in the
GUI.
Hosts, storage systems, and copy pair configuration definitions (pair management servers) can be
specified for any site. Although more than one resource can be specified for each site, a particular
resource cannot be specified for more than one site.
Sites are managed by users with the Admin (Replication Manager management) permission. Each
user can view the resources that belong to any site within the range of resource groups assigned to
that user for access control.
To view the relationships between sites and resource groups, see “Relationship between sites and
resource groups” on page 96.
Relationship between sites and resource groups
The following figure shows the relationships between sites and resource groups.
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