HP Insight Recovery 6.3 User Guide
Contents
Preface........................................................................................................5
Publishing history......................................................................................................................5
1 Overview..................................................................................................6
2 Installing and configuring HP Insight Recovery................................................8
Installation and configuration overview........................................................................................8
Installation and configuration prerequisites...................................................................................8
Installing and licensing HP Insight Recovery.................................................................................8
Uninstall instructions.............................................................................................................8
Networking setup.....................................................................................................................9
Storage setup.........................................................................................................................10
Primary Site logical server setup...............................................................................................11
Recovery Site logical server setup.............................................................................................12
Configuring HP Insight Recovery...............................................................................................13
HP Insight Recovery user interface overview...........................................................................13
HP Insight Recovery configuration overview...........................................................................14
3 Testing and failover operations...................................................................15
Testing Recovery Groups..........................................................................................................15
Failover operations.................................................................................................................16
Planned failover.................................................................................................................16
Unplanned failover............................................................................................................16
Target selection and parallelism of activation during a Change local site to Primary Site operation....17
4 Issues, limitations and suggested actions......................................................18
Limitations.............................................................................................................................18
No automatic synchronization of configuration between sites...................................................18
HP Insight Recovery job information is not preserved in certain scenarios..................................18
Minor issues..........................................................................................................................18
ESX configuration setting required for VMFS datastores of HP Insight Recovery managed logical
servers to be visible at Recovery Site....................................................................................18
Convert local site to Primary or Recovery Site operation hangs.................................................18
Identical configuration of logical servers between sites............................................................19
One Raid Manager instance per XP Storage Management Server and One Raid Manager instance
per XP device group...........................................................................................................19
CLX/XP software must be installed on a separate Windows system...........................................19
One Active HP Insight Recovery configuration operation at any point in time.............................19
Site delete operation in HP Insight Recovery does not remove SIM tools....................................20
5 Troubleshooting........................................................................................21
Configuration troubleshooting..................................................................................................21
HP Insight Recovery troubleshooting..........................................................................................25
HP Insight Recovery log files.....................................................................................................28
6 Support and other resources .....................................................................30
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................30
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