HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 Recovery Management User Guide

2 Installing and configuring Matrix recovery management
This chapter contains sections on Matrix recovery management installation prerequisites, networking
setup, storage setup, logical server setup, Matrix recovery management configuration, export and
import operations, and DR Protection for IO services.
IMPORTANT: If you intend to create DR Protected IO services, see “DR protection for IO services”
(page 22) before starting the Matrix recovery management installation and configuration process.
Installation and configuration overview
The following Matrix recovery management installation and configuration overview includes links
to information on each step in the process.
1. Confirm that all Matrix recovery management installation and configuration prerequisites have
been met—See “Installation and configuration prerequisites” (page 8).
2. Install and license Matrix recovery management—See “Installing and licensing Matrix recovery
management” (page 9).
3. Confirm that you have a supported networking configuration—See “Setting up Networking”
(page 9).
4. Configure storage—See “Setting up Storage” (page 10).
5. Configure for DR Protection—See “Setting up Local Site logical servers” (page 16).
6. Configure logical servers at the Remote Site—See “ Setting up Remote Site logical servers”
(page 16).
7. Configure Matrix recovery management—See “Configuring Matrix recovery management”
(page 17).
8. Configure DR Protection for IO services—See “DR protection for IO services” (page 22)
Installation and configuration prerequisites
Matrix recovery management is the HP Matrix Operating Environment component that provides
the recovery management capability. The HP Matrix Operating Environment and dependent
software must be installed on the Central Management Server at the Local Site and the Remote
Site before Matrix recovery management can be installed. For more information, see the HP Insight
Management 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide available at Enterprise Information Library.
Confirm that both the Local Site and the Remote Site meet the support requirements specified for
Matrix recovery management in the HP Insight Management 7.3 Update 1 Support Matrix, including
supported servers, storage, browsers, operating systems, databases, and hypervisors. The HP
Insight Management 7.3 Update 1 Support Matrix is available at Enterprise Information Library.
NOTE:
• It is assumed that networking and storage replication links are present between the Local Site
and the Remote Site.
• When planning for a disaster recovery solution using Matrix recovery management with
VMware hypervisor based IO services, you must ensure that the hosts at both the primary and
the remote sites match. For example, the hosts with visibility to the replicated volume that the
IO service uses and can be selected to activate the replica services at the DR site must be
running a version equal to or higher than the primary site host on which the original IO service
is created. For example, if primary IO service is created on an ESX 5.5 host, the DR site ESX
servers that have the replicated datastore mapped must be running ESX5.5 or later.
8 Installing and configuring Matrix recovery management