HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring for Linux User's Guide (T2558-96078, February 2008)

Table of Contents
Preface .........................................................................................................................................i
Intended Audience ....................................................................................................................................i
Organization of This Guide ......................................................................................................................i
Conventions Used in This Guide .............................................................................................................i
Online References ....................................................................................................................................ii
Online help .................................................................................................................................................................................................ii
Online manual ............................................................................................................................................................................................ii
Chapter 1: Introduction to Storage Mirroring ......................................................................1-1
Storage Mirroring Features .....................................................................................................1-2
High availability and disaster recovery management features ...................................................................................................... 1-2
Resource utilization features ...............................................................................................................................................................1-2
Improved backup benefits ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1-2
Other features and benefits ................................................................................................................................................................. 1-2
Storage Mirroring Operations ................................................................................................1-3
Mirroring ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-3
Replication ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1-4
Failure monitoring/failover ................................................................................................................................................................... 1-5
Restoration ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-6
Sample Configurations ............................................................................................................1-7
One-to-One, Active/Standby ...............................................................................................................................................................1-7
One-to-One, Active/Active .................................................................................................................................................................. 1-8
Many-to-One ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1-9
One-to-Many .........................................................................................................................................................................................1-10
Chained ...................................................................................................................................................................................................1-11
Single Machine .......................................................................................................................................................................................1-12
Chapter 2: Management Console ...........................................................................................2-1
Starting the Management Console .........................................................................................2-1
Understanding the Display ......................................................................................................2-2
Management Console toolbar ............................................................................................................................................................. 2-4
Logging On and Off of Storage Mirroring ..............................................................................2-5
Stopping the daemon ...............................................................................................................2-5
Storage Mirroring Ports ..........................................................................................................2-6
Management Console ports ................................................................................................................................................................. 2-6
Storage Mirroring server ports ........................................................................................................................................................... 2-7
Inserting a Server .....................................................................................................................2-8
Storage Mirroring Workspaces ..............................................................................................2-9
Saving a workspace .................................................................................................................................................................................2-9
Opening a workspace ............................................................................................................................................................................2-9
Getting Help for the Management Console ..........................................................................2-9
Exiting the Management Console ..........................................................................................2-9