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1 Overview
HP Insight Recovery is the recovery management component of HP Insight Dynamics that
provides disaster recovery protection for
configured and managed by the HP Insight
Dynamics Virtualization Manager. Logical servers that are included in an HP Insight Recovery
configuration are referred to as
logical servers. A DR Protected logical server can
run on a physical machine (C-class blade), or on a virtual machine hosted by a hypervisor. When
a DR Protected logical server is running on a C-class Blade equipped with HP Virtual Connect,
it is referred to as a
. When a DR Protected logical server is running on a
virtual machine under the control of a hypervisor, it is referred to as a
.
An HP Insight Recovery configuration consists of two sites, each managed by HP Insight
Dynamics. At any point in time, one site is configured with the Primary role and the other is
configured with the Recovery role. HP Insight Recovery pairs symmetrically configured logical
servers across the two sites. The DR Protected logical servers at the
are in an activated
state, providing services to the end-user. The peer logical servers at the
are in a
deactivated state. At the Primary Site, the boot images of the DR Protected logical servers,
including applications code and data, reside on disk array volumes. The Primary Site volumes
are replicated at the Recovery Site using storage array supported replication. The replicated
volumes at the Recovery Site are associated with a DR Protected peer logical server at the Recovery
Site
If a disaster occurs at the Primary site, the administrator at the Recovery site can trigger a site
failover via a push-button provided by HP Insight Recovery. This will prepare the storage
associated with the DR Protected logical servers at the Recovery site for read-write access, and
then activate the logical servers at the Recovery site. The site role at the Recovery Site will be
changed to Primary after a failover.
Some features of HP Insight Recovery 6.0
•
Provides an automated disaster recovery mechanism, with a single push-button triggering
both storage and server failover for DR Protected logical servers.
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Provides a disaster recovery solution for logical servers managed by HP Insight Dynamics.
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Supports hypervisor hosted virtual machines.
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Support for flexible cross-technology logical servers - VC hosted logical servers can fail over
to VM hosts and VM hosted logical servers can fail over to VC hosts.
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Support for multiple logical servers in a Recovery Group.
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Extends the HP Insight Dynamics value of a common management interface to the realm
of disaster recovery, for logical servers running on physical or virtual machines.
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Supports HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA storage replication in synchronous
mode.
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Supports HP StorageWorks Continuous Access XP storage replication in synchronous and
asynchronous mode.
The HP Insight Recovery configuration process
The following graphic illustrates the four-step HP Insight Recovery configuration process.
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