HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 Recovery Management User Guide

Figure 1 Recovery Group Sets
Features and benefits of Matrix 7.3 recovery management
• Provides an automated failover mechanism for DR Protected logical servers, DR Protected IO
services, and associated storage.
• Provides a disaster recovery solution for logical servers and IO services managed by the HP
Matrix Operating Environment.
NOTE: Supports DR Protection of IO services with virtual server groups only. DR Protection
of IO services associated with physical server groups is not supported at this time.
• Extends the HP Matrix Operating Environment value of a common management interface to
the realm of disaster recovery for logical servers running on physical or virtual machines and
for IO services running on virtual machines.
• Supports hypervisor hosted virtual machines.
• Supports standalone Hyper-V.
• Supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V R2 and Windows 2012 with Hyper-V
in a clustered configuration with CSV.
• Supports flexible cross-technology logical servers. VC-hosted logical servers can fail over to
become VM-hosted logical servers, and VM-hosted logical servers can fail over to VC hosts.
• Supports multiple logical servers and IO services in a Recovery Group.
• Supports bidirectional failover of Recovery Group Sets between two sites, allowing both
activated and deactivated Recovery Groups to exist at the same site.
• Supports HP P6000 Continuous Access Software storage replication in synchronous and
asynchronous modes.
• Supports HP P9000 Continuous Access Software storage replication in synchronous,
asynchronous, and asynchronous journal modes.
• Supports HP 3PAR synchronous and asynchronous data replication.
• Supports integration with the remote failover features of installed storage replication products,
other than HP P6000, HP P9000, or HP 3PAR. These storage replication products are referred
to as User Defined storage in Matrix recovery management.
6 Matrix recovery management Overview