HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.6.1-00 Configuration Guide

Replica operations between storage systems
Application Agent is compatible with Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous Access Journal
backups to (and restorations from) remote site storage systems, for when a failure occurs on a local
site storage system. Depending on the DBMS product linked to, different volume replication functions
can be used:
• Exchange Server: Continuous Access Synchronous
• SQL Server: Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous Access Journal
Copy types supported for replica operation
The following system configurations can be used to perform backups and restorations between storage
systems:
• Continuous Access Synchronous or Continuous Access Journal configurations (basic)
• Business Copy and Continuous Access Synchronous multi-target configurations
• Business Copy and Continuous Access Journal multi-target configurations
• Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous Access Journal multi-target configurations
• Business Copy (multiple generations), Continuous Access Synchronous or Continuous Access
Journal configurations
Dynamic recognition of secondary volumes
When a secondary volume is dynamically recognized, do not use the LUN#0 disk among the physical
disks that are connected to the device adapter port for the primary and secondary volumes. When
the physical disk of LUN#0 is used, other physical disks might not be recognized.
When reinstalling Application Agent
When Application Agent is uninstalled, configuration files might remain. Before re-installing Application
Agent, you should manually delete the entire directory where Application Agent was installed.
Maximum number of Application Agent instances
The maximum number of Application Agent instances that can be registered is 128.
SQL server log distribution function
The SQL Server log distribution function can be used when SQL Server databases are backed up. To
do this, there must be two servers; a server from which to distribute the log files and a server to which
to send the log files.
For this type of configuration, Application Agent must be installed on both servers.
VSS Provider requirements
The following are requirements for RM Shadow Copy (VSS Provider) installed with Application Agent.
Software version
Replication Manager and Application Agent support VSS Provider 01.04.01 or later. The prerequisite
P9000 RAID Manager version is 01.19.04 or later.
VSS backups and Windows Server 2008/2012
The following applies to Windows Server 2008/2012 environments.
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