HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.6.1-00 User Guide

Contents
Preface .............................................................................................. 21
1 Introduction ..................................................................................... 23
About Replication Manager ....................................................................................................... 23
Example of a replication environment .................................................................................... 23
Replication Manager features ..................................................................................................... 24
Architecture and components ..................................................................................................... 25
System configurations ................................................................................................................ 26
Replication Manager operations roadmap ................................................................................... 30
2 Getting started ................................................................................ 33
Using the Help system ............................................................................................................... 33
Initial setup .............................................................................................................................. 34
Initial settings configuration workflow .................................................................................... 34
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) .................. 36
Registering redundant pair management servers manually ....................................................... 37
Adding pair management server nodes ................................................................................. 37
Deleting pair management server nodes ............................................................................... 37
Identifying a pair management server associated with a copy group ......................................... 37
Confirming the prerequisite environment ...................................................................................... 37
Logging in and out ................................................................................................................... 38
Quick start ............................................................................................................................... 39
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
Structure of the Hosts view ................................................................................................... 46
Storage Systems subwindow ................................................................................................ 47
Structure of the Storage Systems view .................................................................................... 48
Pair configurations subwindow ............................................................................................. 49
Structure of the Pair Configurations view ................................................................................ 50
Applications subwindow ..................................................................................................... 51
Structure of the Applications view ......................................................................................... 52
User Guide 5