HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.2 User Guide

Contents
Preface .............................................................................................. 19
1 Introduction ..................................................................................... 21
About Replication Manager ....................................................................................................... 21
Example of a replication environment .................................................................................... 21
Replication Manager features ..................................................................................................... 22
Architecture and components ..................................................................................................... 23
System configurations ................................................................................................................ 24
Replication Manager operations roadmap ................................................................................... 28
2 Getting started ................................................................................ 31
Initial setup .............................................................................................................................. 31
Initial settings configuration workflow .................................................................................... 31
Preparing the replication environment .......................................................................................... 31
Setting up the prerequisite environment (mainframe systems) ........................................................... 33
Setting up the prerequisite environment (application replicas) .......................................................... 33
Setting up redundant pair management server configurations ......................................................... 34
About redundant pair management server configurations ........................................................ 34
Registering redundant pair management server nodes (while creating a copy group) .................. 35
Registering redundant pair management servers manually ....................................................... 36
Adding pair management server nodes ................................................................................. 36
Deleting pair management server nodes ............................................................................... 36
Identifying a pair management server associated with a copy group ......................................... 37
Confirming the prerequisite environment ...................................................................................... 37
Logging in and out ................................................................................................................... 37
Quick start ............................................................................................................................... 38
3 Replication Manager console ............................................................ 41
Understanding the console layout ............................................................................................... 41
Global tasks bar area ......................................................................................................... 42
Explorer menu ................................................................................................................... 42
Dashboard menu ............................................................................................................... 44
Application bar area .......................................................................................................... 44
Navigation area ................................................................................................................ 44
Application area ................................................................................................................ 44
Object tree ........................................................................................................................ 44
Dialog box ........................................................................................................................ 45
Functional views ....................................................................................................................... 45
Hosts subwindow ............................................................................................................... 45
Hosts subwindow ............................................................................................................... 46
Structure of the Hosts view ................................................................................................... 46
Storage Systems subwindow ................................................................................................ 47
Storage Systems subwindow ................................................................................................ 48
Structure of the Storage Systems view .................................................................................... 48
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