HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.6.1-00 Configuration Guide

Adding a link menu to the GUI display ....................................................................................... 58
hcmdslink command options ................................................................................................ 58
Creating a user-defined application file ................................................................................. 59
3 Setting up Application Agent ............................................................. 61
About Application Agent ........................................................................................................... 61
Application Agent functions ................................................................................................. 61
System requirements and supported environments ......................................................................... 62
Application Agent system requirements .................................................................................. 62
Host OS and database server requirements ..................................................................... 63
Database and backup server requirements ...................................................................... 66
Additional server requirements ...................................................................................... 71
VSS Provider requirements ............................................................................................. 74
Storage systems requirements ........................................................................................ 75
Cluster support ................................................................................................................... 76
Cluster considerations .................................................................................................. 77
Virtual environments supported by Application Agent .................................................................... 78
VMware ESX/ESXi Server .................................................................................................... 78
Windows Server Hyper-V .................................................................................................... 79
Hyper-V Live Migration ........................................................................................................ 81
Virtual memory required when running Application Agent on a virtual machine of Windows Server
Hyper-V ........................................................................................................................... 81
Application Agent installation location ......................................................................................... 81
Application Agent installation path restrictions ........................................................................ 82
If you plan to install Application Agent on the management server ............................................ 82
Installing Application Agent ....................................................................................................... 82
Adding Application Agent to the Windows Firewall Exception list ................................................... 85
Application Agent and P9000 RAID Manager ............................................................................. 85
Command line interface for P9000 RAID Manager ................................................................ 85
Protection function of P9000 RAID Manager .......................................................................... 85
Using P9000 RAID Manager to configure pair volumes ........................................................... 86
Device Manager and P9000 RAID Manager ......................................................................... 86
Starting and stopping P9000 RAID Manager ......................................................................... 86
Settings for Application Agent in a cluster configuration (MSCS) ..................................................... 86
Application Agent and Replication Manager log output ................................................................. 88
Changing Application Agent port numbers .................................................................................. 88
Starting and stopping the Application Agent Services .................................................................... 89
Copy Controller service ....................................................................................................... 89
Common Agent service ....................................................................................................... 89
Setting error logging options for Application Agent ....................................................................... 89
4 Operating the management server ..................................................... 93
About executing commands on the management server ................................................................. 93
User permissions ................................................................................................................ 93
Setting up the PATH environment variable in Linux ................................................................... 93
Starting and stopping Replication Manager ................................................................................. 93
Starting Replication Manager .............................................................................................. 94
Stopping Replication Manager ............................................................................................ 94
Checking the operation status of Replication Manager ........................................................... 95
Changing settings in the properties files ....................................................................................... 96
Properties related to Replication Manager ............................................................................. 96
logger.properties ................................................................................................................ 99
About Replication Manager log output ......................................................................... 102
serverstorageif.properties .................................................................................................. 102
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