Backing up and restoring HP Insight Management 7.3 Central Management Server (Windows)

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3
Table of contents
Abstract ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Scope ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
CMS configurations ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Preparing your environment for backup .................................................................................................................................. 7
Saving your environment .......................................................................................................................................................... 11
Full system backup ................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Partial backup .......................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Preparing your environment for restore ................................................................................................................................ 24
Restoring your environment ..................................................................................................................................................... 26
Completing the recovery process ............................................................................................................................................ 27
References .................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Appendix A: mxsync man page ................................................................................................................................................ 32
mxsync initialization ............................................................................................................................................................... 33
mxsync Systems Insight Manager synchronization section .......................................................................................... 34
mxsync Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager synchronization section ....................................................................... 34
mxsync Logical servers and associated SAN-based storage synchronization section ........................................... 35
mxsync Matrix infrastructure orchestration synchronization section ......................................................................... 36
Mxsync Matrix recovery management synchronization section .................................................................................. 37
Appendix B: Sample mxsync.log .............................................................................................................................................. 40
Systems Insight Manager section........................................................................................................................................ 41
Virtual Connect Enterprise Management section ............................................................................................................ 43
Logical servers and associated SAN-based storage section ......................................................................................... 47
HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration section ................................................................................................................ 57
Matrix recovery management section................................................................................................................................ 69
Appendix C: HP Insight Management backup files and directories .................................................................................. 73
Appendix D: mxsync-svcutil man page .................................................................................................................................. 75
Appendix E: VCEM resynchronization actions ....................................................................................................................... 76
VC Domain removed after backup ...................................................................................................................................... 76
VC domain added after backup ............................................................................................................................................ 78
VC modules added or removed after backup ................................................................................................................... 78
VC firmware after backup...................................................................................................................................................... 80
Handling disabled enclosures during mxsync .................................................................................................................. 80
VC connectivity fail after backup ......................................................................................................................................... 80
Appendix F: gWLM configuration changes ............................................................................................................................. 81
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