HP Insight Recovery HP Part Number: N/A Published: April 2009 Edition: 2.
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Table of Contents 1 Legal Notices.............................................................................................9 Warranty...............................................................................................................................................9 Restricted Rights Legend...........................................................................................................................9 Copyright Notice..................................................................
How do I........................................................................................................................................21 Notes.............................................................................................................................................22 Related Topics.................................................................................................................................22 Deleting Storage Replication Groups...................................
glossary.....................................................................................................39 Index.........................................................................................................
List of Tables 2-1 The HP Insight Recovery Configuration Process....................................................................................12 2-2 What you can do...........................................................................................................................12 3-1 Managing Primary and Recovery Site Configurations...........................................................................16 3-2 Local and Remote Settings........................................................
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2 Overview Overview HP Insight Recovery (HPIR) provides disaster recovery protection for logical servers configured and managed by Insight Dynamics - Virtual Server Environment (ID-VSE). Logical servers that are managed by HP Insight Recovery are referred to as Disaster Recovery Protected (DR Protected) logical servers.
Table 2-1 The HP Insight Recovery Configuration Process Step number... Description.... 1 The local and remote site information is configured in this step. Typically, once configured this information is rarely changed, but can be updated at any time. 2 The Storage Replication Group information is configured in this step. In Insight Recovery, a Storage Replication Group is a generic term for what is referred to as a “DR Group” in Continuous Access EVA terminology.
Notes ▲ Some tabs or links will remain unavailable until you complete the HP Insight Recovery configuration process.
3 Managing Site Configurations Overview Use the Sites tab to do the following: ▲ ▲ Click Configure for: • “Creating and Editing Sites” • “Deleting Site Configurations” • “Exporting Site Configurations” • “Importing Site Configurations” Click Change local site to Primary for.... • ▲ “Changing the Local Site to a Primary Site” Click Change local site to Recovery for...
▲ • “Exporting Site Configurations” • “Importing Site Configurations” Click Change local site to Primary for.... • ▲ “Changing the Local Site to a Primary Site” Click Change local site to Recovery for... • “Changing the Local Site to a Recovery Site” Notes • You must complete the Insight Recovery Configuration Process, before any operational commands can be performed, such as Change local site to Primary.
Central Management Server (CMS) Enter the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of the local and remote Central Management Servers. If the CMS is running in a Microsoft Cluster Server environment, specify the virtual server IP address for the CMS server. Role (local site only) Select Primary or Recovery. Description Enter any additional information. 5.
How do I 1. 2. 3. 4. From the Sites tab, click Configure, then click Export. Click Save. Specify a destination for the exported file. When done, click Save. Send the exported file to the target Primary or Recovery Site. See “Importing Site Configurations” for more information. ▲ The exported configuration file is saved on the administrator's desktop. If the import will be done from a different desktop, the file will have to be transferred.
Related Topics Click on a link for information on: • “Managing Site Configurations” • “Managing Storage Replication Groups” • “Managing Recovery Groups” • “Exporting Site Configurations” • “Importing Site Configurations” • “Monitoring Jobs” See Also • “Planned Failovers” • “Unplanned Failovers” Changing the Local Site to a Primary Site Overview This command changes the local site from the Recovery Site to the Primary Site.
Notes ▲ The Change Local Site to Recovery button is only available from the primary site.
4 Managing Storage Replication Groups Overview Use the Storage tab to define the storage replication volumes associated with DR Protected logical servers and to specify the storage parameters that impact storage failover during a site failover.
Local and Remote Array WWN Enter the local and remote Array WWN (World Wide Name) as provide by the storage administrator. There should be no dashes, spaces, or colons in the WWN – only consecutive hexadecimal characters. Failsafe Mode Enter the Failsafe setting for the Storage Replication (DR) Group in the EVA array. Possible values are: • Failsafe enabled— All host I/O to the DR group is stopped if data cannot be replicated between the source array and destination array.
• “Exporting Site Configurations” • “Importing Site Configurations” • “Monitoring Jobs” See Also • “Planned Failovers” • “Unplanned Failovers” Deleting Storage Replication Groups Overview Deleting a Storage Replication Group. How do I 1. 2. Click the Storage tab, select a storage replication group, then click Delete. Click Yes to confirm. • You cannot delete a Storage Replication Group if it is contained in a Recovery Group.
5 Managing Recovery Groups Overview Use the Recovery Groups tab to: ▲ “Creating and Editing Recovery Groups” Related Topics Click on a link for information on: • “Managing Site Configurations” • “Managing Storage Replication Groups” • “Exporting Site Configurations” • “Importing Site Configurations” • “Monitoring Jobs” See Also • “Planned Failovers” • “Unplanned Failovers” Creating and Editing Recovery Groups Overview Create or edit the Recovery Group(s) for this site. How do I 1. 2.
Notes • When manually creating a Recovery Group at the Recovery Site, you must provide an exported configuration file. See “Exporting Site Configurations” for more information. • It is recommended that you leave gaps between the start order numbers when specifying Recovery Group start order values. For example, 1,5,7,9 instead of 1,2,3,4 to accommodate future insertions.
• “Planned Failovers” • “Unplanned Failovers” Deleting Recovery Groups 27
6 Testing Recovery Groups Overview There are two ways to test Recovery Groups at the Recovery Site. The first is to perform a Planned Failover scenario (see “Planned Failovers” for more information). The second way is to test individual Recovery Groups at the Recovery Site. At the Recovery Site, the logical servers being managed by Insight Recovery are known as Recovery logical servers.
Recovery Groups. After all of the imported/created Recovery Groups have been tested, you must disable Maintenance Mode for each of those Recovery Groups. • Recovery Groups that have Maintenance Mode enabled will not be included in the Change Local Site to Primary operation.
7 Planned Failovers Overview A planned failover typically involves an expected outage at the Primary Site. For example, a planned failover might be necessary to perform scheduled maintenance, or to react to a severe weather forecast. The following section describes the steps necessary to perform a planned failover using HP Insight Recovery. Step 1: At the Primary Site 1. 2. 3. A decision is made to move DR Protected logical servers from the current Primary Site to the Recovery Site.
• “Importing Site Configurations” • “Monitoring Jobs” Planned Failovers
8 Unplanned Failovers Overview An unplanned failover typically involves the occurrence of a site-wide disaster, without prior warning, at the Primary Site. This event may involve a regional disaster (earthquake, massive flood), or a local event (water main leak in the data center). The following section describes the steps necessary to recover from an unplanned disaster using HP Insight Recovery. Step 1: At the Primary Site 1. A disaster occurs at the Primary Site.
See Also 34 • “Managing Site Configurations” • “Managing Storage Replication Groups” • “Exporting Site Configurations” • “Importing Site Configurations” • “Monitoring Jobs” Unplanned Failovers
9 Monitoring Jobs Overview Use the Jobs tab to do the following: • Review the task, status, completion (represented as a percent) as well as the start/end time of Insight Recovery “jobs”. A job in Insight Recovery is an automated, multi-step process associated with site role reversal (either changing a Recovery Site to a Primary Site or vice versa). • Refresh job state information display. ▲ “Deleting and Cancelling Jobs ” The Jobs screen shows jobs that have completed or are currently in progress.
Deleting and Cancelling Jobs Deleting Completed Jobs 1. 2. Click Refresh, then select the job(s) that you want to delete. Click Delete Selected Jobs to remove the competed jobs from the display. Cancelling Jobs 1. 2. 3. Click Refresh, then select the job(s) that you want to cancel. Select the job(s) that you want to cancel. Click Cancel Selected Jobs to cancel the in progress jobs. • In-progress jobs cannot be deleted. • Only in progress (uncompleted) jobs can be cancelled.
10 Authorizing a SIM User to Administer Insight Recovery Overview A SIM Administrator is authorized to administer Insight Recovery. You can also authorize a specific SIM user to manage HP Insight Recovery without having to grant that user full Administrator privileges. How do I ? 1. 2. 3. From SIM, menu bar, select Options -> Security -> Users and Authorizations. Refer to the SIM User Guide for more information. Create a Toolbox named Insight Recovery .
glossary DR Group The Continuous Access EVA term for Storage Replication Group DR Protected Logical servers that are managed by HP Insight Recovery are referred to as Disaster Recovery Protected (DR Protected) logical servers. Insight Recovery Configuration Process The following graphically displays the three-step HP Insight Recovery configuration process, which must be done at both the primary and recovery site(s). Table 9 The HP Insight Recovery Configuration Process Step number... Description....
recovery group start order An optional number that specifies the order in which a Recovery Group is to be started during a site failover. Recovery Groups without a start order number are started after all Recovery Groups that have an associated start order number. recovery logical server A logical server at the Recovery Site included in a Recovery Group. It is associated with a logical server at the Primary Site included in the same Recovery Group. Normally it is deactivated and disabled.
Index primary and recovery site configuration, 16 recovery group, 25 storage replication group, 21 A about planned failovers, 31 about unplanned failovers, 33 adding primary and recovery site configuration, 16 recovery group, 25 storage replication group, 21 authorizing a SIM user to administer Insight Recovery, 37 N new primary and recovery site configuration, 16 recovery group, 25 storage replication group, 21 C O cancelling jobs, 36 changing primary and recovery site configuration, recovery group, 2
