HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.3.1-00 User Guide

7 Organizing resources

In Replication Manager you can organize resources such as hosts and storage systems into logical

sites for easier management. You can also designate frequently monitored resource groups as My

Copy Groups.

This chapter describes different ways to organize resources.

About resources

Resources are entities managed by Replication Manager. These include application servers, storage

systems, and pair management servers that constitute the replication environment. By registering

Device Manager servers, instances of HP StorageWorks P9000 for Business Continuity Manager

Software, or instances of P9000 mainframe agent as information sources, you can have Replication

Manager manage the information about the hosts, storage systems, and pair management servers,

plus information about volumes or copy pair definitions contained in any of these hosts, storage

systems, or servers.

The maximum number of resources that can be managed by Replication Manager depends on the

setting specified for the memory heap size (Small, Medium, or Large). For details on the maximum

number of resources that can be managed by Replication Manager, see “Relationship between

managed resources and memory heap size” on page 176. To increase the number of managed

resources it is necessary to increase the memory heap size. For details, see the HP P9000 Replication

Manager Software Configuration Guide.

Replication Manager provides the following display formats (views) for viewing resources from a

variety of perspectives:

• Hosts view

• Storage Systems view

• Pair Configurations view

• Applications view

You can use these views to check the status, configuration, and performance of managed copy pairs,

copy groups, or applications.

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If the copy pair or copy group is part of a cascade configuration, these views can display the status

and configuration of all the related copy pairs or copy groups.