HP Insight Recovery 6.2 User Guide

1 Overview

HP Insight Recovery is the recovery management component of HP Insight Dynamics that

provides disaster recovery protection for logical servers configured and managed by the HP Insight

Dynamics Virtualization Manager. Logical servers that are included in an HP Insight Recovery

configuration are referred to as DR Protected logical servers. A DR Protected logical server can

run on a physical machine (C-class blade), or on a virtual machine hosted by a hypervisor. When

a DR Protected logical server is running on a C-class Blade equipped with HP Virtual Connect,

it is referred to as a VC hosted logical server. When a DR Protected logical server is running on a

virtual machine under the control of a hypervisor, it is referred to as a VM hosted logical server.

An HP Insight Recovery configuration consists of two sites, each managed by HP Insight

Dynamics. At any point in time, one site is configured with the Primary role and the other is

configured with the Recovery role. HP Insight Recovery pairs symmetrically configured logical

servers across the two sites. The DR Protected logical servers at the Primary Site are in an activated

state, providing services to the end-user. The peer logical servers at the Recovery Site are in a

deactivated state. At the Primary Site, the boot images of the DR Protected logical servers,

including applications code and data, reside on disk array volumes. The Primary Site volumes

are replicated at the Recovery Site using storage array supported replication. The replicated

volumes at the Recovery Site are associated with DR Protected peer logical servers at the Recovery

Site.

If a disaster occurs at the Primary site, the administrator at the Recovery site can trigger a site

failover via a push-button provided by HP Insight Recovery. This will prepare the storage

associated with the DR Protected logical servers at the Recovery site for read-write access, and

then activate the logical servers at the Recovery site. The site role at the Recovery Site will be

changed to Primary after a failover.

Some features of HP Insight Recovery 6.2

• Provides an automated disaster recovery mechanism, with a single push-button triggering

both storage and server failover for DR Protected logical servers.

• Provides a disaster recovery solution for logical servers managed by HP Insight Dynamics.

• Supports hypervisor hosted virtual machines.

• Support for flexible cross-technology logical servers - VC hosted logical servers can fail over

to ESX hosted VMs and ESX hosted VMs can fail over to VC hosts.

• Support for multiple logical servers in a Recovery Group.

• Extends the HP Insight Dynamics value of a common management interface to the realm

of disaster recovery, for logical servers running on physical or virtual machines.

• Supports HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA storage replication in synchronous and

asynchronous mode.

• Supports HP StorageWorks Continuous Access XP storage replication in synchronous,

asynchronous, and asynchronous journal mode.

• Technology preview of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V R2 in a clustered

configuration.

The HP Insight Recovery configuration process

The following graphic illustrates the four-step HP Insight Recovery configuration process.