HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Recovery Management User Guide

hosted by a smaller set of servers. Recovery time objectives require that the moves be achieved
quickly and automatically, as in the previous example.
Capabilities and limitations
Using the tools and procedures described in this chapter you can:
• Configure and manage a logical server that can perform physical to virtual cross-technology
movements within the datacenter.
• Configure and manage a DR-protected logical server that can be failed over across data
centers in a cross-technology movement.
The following limitations should be noted:
• Configuration of a cross-technology logical server requires additional steps (however, no
additional steps are required at the time of the move, within or across sites).
• Virtual machines must be configured to emulate either the LSI Logic Parallel or LSI Logic SAS
storage type if using Windows 2008, or LSI Logic Parallel storage type if using Windows
2003.
• VMware ESX guest tools will not be automatically installed.
• There is no explicit support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV).
• Preparation of the portable system image so it can run on both physical and virtual servers is
done from an OS installed on a physical server. You cannot prepare the portable system
image from an OS installed on a virtual machine.
• Virtual machines must be configured to use Raw Device Mapped (RDM) Fibre Channel SAN
storage presented to the VM host for boot and data. This is the same storage that a logical
server uses when running on a physical server.
• Present each boot and data LUN using the same LUN number across the physical and virtual
targets for a logical server.
• The target WWN(s) used to present the Logical Unit must be the same across virtual and
physical targets.
NOTE: The recovery logical server that provides DR protection at the Remote Site will have
its own set of target WWN/LUN values that will differ from the logical server at the Local
Site.
26 Dynamic workload movement with CloudSystem Matrix: Fluid movement between physical and virtual resources for flexibility
and cost-effective recovery