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

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3

Logical servers and associated SAN-based storage section

During this section, the restored Logical Server Management (LSM) and HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) databases

are resynchronized with the state of the Virtual Connect profiles, virtual machines, and storage volumes on the managed

devices.

During the first phase, the mxsync tool updates the presentation state of the storage volumes in the restored HP SPM

database to reflect the actual state of the storage volumes in the storage array. The tool starts the HP Extensible Storage &

Server Adapter, as well as the HP Storage Provisioning Manager Service Windows service (which starts the HP SPM Storage

Module Service Windows service).

The mxsync tool instructs you to place the HP Storage Provisioning Manager Service Windows service in

Internal Recovery

mode by editing the file <SPM>\state\ApplicationConfig.xml to change the <RecoveryMode> property to

InternalRecovery. It then starts the HP Storage Provisioning Manager Service Windows service.

Next, you are instructed to check the SPM browser-based interface at https://<servername>:8000 to determine

when the SPM completes its internal refresh and transitions to

Manual Recovery

mode. You can view this in the top right

corner of the page.

Last, you must manually re-enter changes (add, remove, and update) that were made post-backup in the following areas:

• Local users and registered certificates

• Role definitions

• Security groups, access rights, members of security groups

• Templates

• Import or remove resources—including arrays, storage pools, volumes, and networks—that were imported or

removed post-backup

Notes:

• SPM utilizes management signatures to help the Administrator determine which volumes should be imported and

which volumes can be removed at this time. The volumes that were imported post-backup have “Previously imported

by this SPM instance” in the Notes field of the Import Volume wizard. See Appendix G: SPM resynchronization actions.

Appendix G: SPM resynchronization actions

• During SPM Internal Recovery, SPM puts all volumes in its restored catalog into quarantine. Internal recovery mode

disables automations and prevents the presentation state of the volume on the array from being changed accidently

during the recovery process.