HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.6.1-00 Configuration Guide

Contents
Preface .............................................................................................. 13
1 Replication Manager system configurations and requirements ................ 15
Replication Manager system configurations .................................................................................. 15
Configurations for open systems ........................................................................................... 15
Configurations for mainframe systems ................................................................................... 22
P9000 mainframe agent versus BCM Agent .................................................................... 26
Prerequisites for managing copy pairs on mainframe systems using P9000 RAID Manager .......... 27
Prerequisites for data migration using virtual IDs ..................................................................... 27
Prerequisites for managing copy pairs using snapshot groups .................................................. 28
Mainframe pairs and Device Manager Agent ........................................................................ 28
Configurations for mainframe monitoring ............................................................................... 28
Configurations for replica management ................................................................................. 28
Replication Manager in standby configuration ....................................................................... 31
System requirements .................................................................................................................. 32
System requirements for the management server ..................................................................... 32
Operating systems ....................................................................................................... 32
Server specifications ..................................................................................................... 38
Virtual memory requirements ......................................................................................... 38
Disk space for Replication Monitor log files (5.x upgrade only) .......................................... 39
Resource Limits ............................................................................................................ 39
Maximum number of copy pairs .................................................................................... 40
Maximum number of LDEVs .......................................................................................... 41
Log data and number of copy pairs ............................................................................... 42
System requirements for the management client ...................................................................... 42
Required memory for management clients ....................................................................... 44
System requirements for hosts and pair management servers ................................................... 45
Requirements for open systems ....................................................................................... 45
P9000 RAID Manager version requirement ..................................................................... 45
P9000 RAID Manager version and consistency group support ........................................... 45
Functional limitations when software versions do not match ............................................... 45
Requirements for mainframe systems ............................................................................... 46
Supported storage systems ............................................................................................ 47
Firewall exceptions .................................................................................................................... 47
How Replication Manager collects data ....................................................................................... 49
Data collection in open systems ............................................................................................ 49
Data collection in mainframe systems .................................................................................... 51
2 Setting up Replication Manager ......................................................... 53
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 53
Setting up the prerequisite environment ........................................................................................ 53
Open systems environment .................................................................................................. 54
Mainframe systems environment ........................................................................................... 56
Application replica environment ........................................................................................... 58
Configuration Guide 5