HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.3.1-00 Configuration Guide

Contents
Preface .............................................................................................. 11
1 Replication Manager system configurations and requirements ................ 13
Replication Manager system configurations .................................................................................. 13
Configurations for open systems ........................................................................................... 13
Configurations for mainframe systems ................................................................................... 20
P9000 mainframe agent versus BCM Agent .................................................................... 24
Configurations for mainframe monitoring ............................................................................... 25
Configurations for replica management ................................................................................. 25
Replication Manager in standby configuration ....................................................................... 28
System requirements .................................................................................................................. 29
System requirements for the management server ..................................................................... 29
Operating systems ....................................................................................................... 29
Server specifications ..................................................................................................... 33
Virtual memory requirements ......................................................................................... 33
Disk space for Replication Monitor log files (5.x upgrade only) .......................................... 34
Resource Limits ............................................................................................................ 35
Maximum number of copy pairs .................................................................................... 35
Maximum number of LDEVs .......................................................................................... 36
Log data and number of copy pairs ............................................................................... 37
System requirements for the management client ...................................................................... 37
Required memory for management clients ....................................................................... 39
System requirements for hosts and pair management servers ................................................... 39
Requirements for open systems ....................................................................................... 39
P9000 RAID Manager version requirement ..................................................................... 39
P9000 RAID Manager version and consistency group support ........................................... 40
Functional limitations when software versions do not match ............................................... 40
Requirements for mainframe systems ............................................................................... 40
Supported storage systems ............................................................................................ 41
Firewall exceptions .................................................................................................................... 42
How Replication Manager collects data ....................................................................................... 43
Data collection in open systems ............................................................................................ 43
Data collection in mainframe systems .................................................................................... 45
2 Setting up Replication Manager ......................................................... 47
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 47
Setting up the prerequisite environment ........................................................................................ 47
Open systems environment .................................................................................................. 48
Mainframe systems environment ........................................................................................... 50
Application replica environment ........................................................................................... 52
Adding a link menu to the GUI display ....................................................................................... 52
hcmdslink command options ................................................................................................ 52
Creating a user-defined application file ................................................................................. 53
Configuration Guide 3