HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring for Linux User's Guide (T2558-96317, June 2009)

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction .........................................................1-1
Storage Mirroring operations ............................................................ 1-3
Mirroring ............................................................................................................. 1-3
Replication ........................................................................................................... 1-4
Failure monitoring and 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 server ...................................................................................................... 1-12
Virtual systems .................................................................................................. 1-13
Resources ....................................................................................... 1-14
Chapter 2 Installation ...........................................................2-1
System requirements ........................................................................ 2-1
Installing or upgrading Storage Mirroring for Linux .......................... 2-3
Configuring your servers using DTSetup ........................................... 2-4
Installing or Upgrading the Storage Mirroring Client for Windows .... 2-9
Removing (Erasing) Storage Mirroring ........................................... 2-10
Removing the Storage Mirroring Client for Windows ...................... 2-10
Chapter 3 Clients ..................................................................3-1
Management Console ........................................................................ 3-1
Logging on and off of Storage Mirroring ................................................................... 3-2
Storage Mirroring workspaces ................................................................................. 3-3
Saving a workspace ......................................................................................... 3-3
Opening a workspace ....................................................................................... 3-3
Failover Control Center ..................................................................... 3-4
Configuring communication ports ............................................................................ 3-4
Configuring refresh rate ......................................................................................... 3-4
Clearing maintained security credentials .................................................................. 3-4
Chapter 4 Replication Sets ....................................................4-1
Replication capabilities ..................................................................... 4-3
Creating a replication set .................................................................. 4-5
Creating or modifying replication rules manually .............................. 4-6
Selecting a block device for replication.............................................. 4-7
Modifying a replication set ................................................................ 4-7
Renaming and copying a replication set ........................................... 4-7
Deleting a replication set .................................................................. 4-7
Calculating replication set size ......................................................... 4-8