HP Insight Recovery 1.
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Table of Contents Printing History ..................................................................................................................5 HP Insight Recovery Acronyms and Terminology................................................................................7 HP Insight Recovery Product Overview................................................................................................7 What's New With HP Insight Recovery 1.0..............................................................
List of Tables 1 2 4 Printing History ..............................................................................................................................5 HP Insight Recovery 1.0 Supported Operating Systems..............................................................
Printing History The most recent printing date and part number indicate the current edition. Table 1 Printing History Printing Date Part Number Edition Changes January 2009 5992–5336 1 No changes, this is the first publication of the HP Insight Recovery 1.
This document provides information about HP Insight Recovery 1.0. HP Insight Recovery Acronyms and Terminology This section explains acronyms and terminology used in this document.
servers, including the operating system, applications code, and data, reside on HP StorageWorks EVA array volumes. The Primary Site volumes are replicated on an HP StorageWorks EVA array at the Recovery Site. The Primary and Recovery Site arrays are synchronized with Continuous Access EVA. Each replicated Recovery Site volume is associated with a DR Protected peer logical server at the Recovery Site.
IMPORTANT: You must license and install the HP Insight Control suite, ID-VSE, and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM), before you can install and license HP Insight Recovery (HP IR). You will also need to install Continuous Access (CA) licenses on each EVA array that will be configured as an HP IR Replication Group. Central Management Server HP Insight Recovery software is installed and runs on HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) Central Management Servers. HP Insight Recovery 1.
NOTE: Support for the Mozilla Firefox browser is planned for a future release, but it is not supported with HP IR 1.0. Operating System Compatibility HP Insight Recovery 1.0 CMS and Managed Servers support Microsoft Windows, Linux, and VMware ESX operating systems, as indicated in the following table. Table 2 HP Insight Recovery 1.
NOTE: HP IR does not support, or install with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as the database. Other Requirements HP Insight Recovery requires that the ESX hosts at the Primary and Recovery sites be managed by separate instances of VMware Virtual Center server at each site.
Primary Site Logical Server Setup You must ensure that logical servers selected for DR protection at the Primary Site meet the following requirements: • • The storage associated with these logical servers must be SAN based. If the logical servers you plan to protect with HP IR at the Primary Site have not been activated, and an OS and applications have not been installed, these steps must be completed before you can configure these logical servers for DR protection.
Recovery Site Logical Server Setup 1. For VC-based logical servers, use the VMAN user interface to create the recovery logical servers. Your Storage Administrator must present the appropriate replicated LUNs to their corresponding recovery logical servers. Do not activate the logical servers at the Recovery Site at this time. (Later, after the recovery logical server is added to an IR Recovery Group, there will be an opportunity to test the recovery logical server in Maintenance Mode). 2.
NOTE: You must license and install ID-VSE, before you can install and license HP Insight Recovery. The HP Insight Control suite is a prerequisite for installing ID-VSE. ID-VSE is not considered “customer installable and configurable”, so for each HP SIM Central Management Server (CMS) that is initially installed and configured to manage servers using ID-VSE, there is a prerequisite for the ID-VSE Installation & Startup Service. You must use the HP Insight Software 3.
• • To provide flexibility - if non-DR Protected workloads are running on HP IR licensed servers, there may not be enough resources to assign recovery servers for all DR Protected logical servers. To accommodate future growth in the number of DR Protected logical servers. NOTE: HP IR and ID-VSE do not place any restrictions on moving DR Protected logical servers from HP IR licensed servers to unlicensed servers (using VMAN drag and drop, for example).
• • the HP Insight Recovery 1.0 online help. To view or download a version of this PDF file with working links, go to: http://www.docs.hp.com/en/vse.html#HP%20Insight%20Recovery If HP Insight Recovery is installed from the Insight Software 3.0 DVD, the online help files associated with the Planned Failovers, Unplanned Failovers, and Authorizing a SIM User to Administer Insight Recovery modules in the HP Insight Recovery graphical user interface are missing. In addition, the HP Insight Recovery 1.
• • • Configuring HP SMI-S EVA to Discover HP Command View EVA Arrays section in the Command View EVA Installation Guide for details on the Discoverer command. HP Insight Recovery 1.0 does not support Command View server credentials that are domain controller based. HP Insight Recovery 1.0 with dissimilar EVA array models between the Primary Site and Recovery Site, requires the ESX advanced configuration setting Lvm.
— — • • • • BIOS Serial Number - There is no supported mechanism to preserve the Serial Number for a physical logical server as it moves across sites (as there is when it moves within a site). Array LUN Numbers - On a physical logical server, the Windows or Linux OS is responsible for mapping the LUNs presented to them correctly to the volumes and file systems configured for the OS.
NOTE: The corresponding Job to change the original primary site to become the recovery site is initiated by clicking on the Change Local Site to Recovery button. NOTE: The role of a site in HP Insight Recovery is not changed until a site Job has completed successfully. For a failed job, click on the associated Job Id to get detailed information about the associated sub-jobs. A site Job contains a sub-job for each Recovery Group.
NOTE: Re-running the Job will only re-try sub-jobs that previously failed; servers associated with successfully completed jobs or sub-jobs are already up and running and will not be impacted. Wait for the Job to complete. After successful Job completion, the HP Insight Recovery Site tab will display the updated local site role, as shown below: If a Recovery Group was deleted due to the re-configuration of a logical server, recreate it now with the re-configured logical server.
1. 2. 3. 4. Click Refresh, then select the job that appears to be hung. Click Cancel Jobs to cancel the job. Select the cancelled job and click on Delete Job. Restart the job by going to the Sites tab and clicking on Change local site to Primary, if you are at the Recovery Site, or clicking on Change local site to Recovery, if you are at the Primary Site. Software Availability in Native Languages The HP Insight Recovery Version 1.0 product is available only in the English language.
