HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.4.1-00 User Guide (TB584-96065, April 2013)

Contents
Preface .............................................................................................. 19
1 Introduction ..................................................................................... 21
About Replication Manager ....................................................................................................... 21
Example of a replication environment .................................................................................... 21
Replication Manager features ..................................................................................................... 22
Architecture and components ..................................................................................................... 23
System configurations ................................................................................................................ 24
Replication Manager operations roadmap ................................................................................... 28
2 Getting started ................................................................................ 31
Using the Help system ............................................................................................................... 31
Initial setup .............................................................................................................................. 32
Initial settings configuration workflow .................................................................................... 32
Setting up redundant pair management server configurations ......................................................... 32
About redundant pair management server configurations ........................................................ 32
Registering redundant pair management server nodes (while creating a copy group) .................. 34
Registering redundant pair management servers manually ....................................................... 35
Adding pair management server nodes ................................................................................. 35
Deleting pair management server nodes ............................................................................... 35
Identifying a pair management server associated with a copy group ......................................... 35
Confirming the prerequisite environment ...................................................................................... 35
Logging in and out ................................................................................................................... 36
Quick start ............................................................................................................................... 37
3 Replication Manager console ............................................................ 39
Understanding the console layout ............................................................................................... 39
Global tasks bar area ......................................................................................................... 40
Explorer menu ................................................................................................................... 40
Dashboard menu ............................................................................................................... 42
Application bar area .......................................................................................................... 42
Navigation area ................................................................................................................ 42
Application area ................................................................................................................ 42
Object tree ........................................................................................................................ 42
Dialog box ........................................................................................................................ 43
Functional views ....................................................................................................................... 43
Hosts subwindow ............................................................................................................... 43
Structure of the Hosts view ................................................................................................... 44
Storage Systems subwindow ................................................................................................ 45
Structure of the Storage Systems view .................................................................................... 46
Pair configurations subwindow ............................................................................................. 47
Structure of the Pair Configurations view ................................................................................ 48
Applications subwindow ..................................................................................................... 49
Structure of the Applications view ......................................................................................... 50
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