HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Recovery Management User Guide

feature. For example, on the Local Site CMS, exclude addresses from 00-21-5A-9B-00-00 to
00-21-5A-9B-FF-FF, and on the Remote Site CMS exclude addresses from 00-21-5A-9C-00-00
to 00-21-5A-9C-FF-FF.
Storage setup
Matrix recovery management depends on storage array replication to enable failover of logical
servers. It is assumed that storage replication links are present between the Local Site and the
Remote Site. HP P6000 Continuous Access Software Disaster Recovery Groups are a good example
of this concept.
To setup Matrix recovery management Storage Replication Groups, complete the following tasks:
1. Boot and data LUNs for VC or VM hosted logical servers that are to be DR Protected must be
replicated using supported storage replication methods, for example, HP P6000 Continuous
Access, HP P9000 Continuous Access, HP 3PAR, or a User Defined storage replication method.
User Defined storage replication is supported when you create and install a storage adapter
in your Matrix recovery management configuration for a storage type other than HP P6000,
P9000, or HP 3PAR. For example, if you create and install a storage adapter named EMC,
the Storage server type drop-down menu for configuring a Storage Management Server will
allow you to select EMC as the storage server type. For more information see: “Creating and
installing a User Defined storage adapter” (page 13)
• If a DR Protected logical server at the Local Site is VC hosted, the replicated boot and
data LUNs on the array at the Remote Site must be presented to the corresponding recovery
logical server.
• If a DR Protected logical server at the Local Site is VM hosted, the replicated boot and
data LUNs on the array at the Remote Site must be presented to the VM host (for example,
ESX) at the Remote Site that is targeted to run the recovery logical server (for example,
ESX guest).
NOTE: Each Recovery Group has a single Storage Replication Group that is used by the
logical servers in that Recovery Group only. All boot and data LUNs used by these logical
servers must be included in the same Storage Replication Group.
NOTE: A Storage Replication Group is a set of storage LUNs on a particular disk array that
are replicated with write order preserved. This corresponds to the HP P6000 Continuous
Access DR Group concept as well as the HP P9000 Continuous Access consistency group
concept.
2. Create one Storage Replication Group for each set of logical servers that will be included in
a Recovery Group.
3. Record the following details about the Storage Replication Group configuration - this information
will be required when you configure Matrix recovery management for replicated storage:
• Local and Remote Site storage identifiers, for example, HP P6000 storage array WWN
or HP P9000 array serial number.
NOTE: In the same way that conflict in the configuration of MAC addresses at the Local
and Remote sites is avoided in the preceding “Networking setup” (page 9) section,
conflict must also be avoided in the configuration of WWNs, if the WWNs are not private
to the respective sites. The same technique using VCEM exclusion ranges is available for
array WWN configuration.
• Storage Management Server FQDN names and credentials for the Local and Remote
Sites, for example, HP P6000 Command View server name and credentials to access the
Command View server.
10 Installing and configuring Matrix recovery management