HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
Preface.................................................................................................................................7
Publishing history...................................................................................................................................7
1 Overview.........................................................................................................................9
2 Installing and configuring HP Insight Recovery........................................................11
Installation and configuration overview..............................................................................................11
Installation and configuration prerequisites........................................................................................11
Installing and licensing HP Insight Recovery.......................................................................................11
Uninstall instructions......................................................................................................................11
Networking setup.................................................................................................................................12
Storage setup.........................................................................................................................................12
Primary Site logical server setup..........................................................................................................14
Recovery Site logical server setup........................................................................................................15
Configuring HP Insight Recovery........................................................................................................15
HP Insight Recovery user interface overview.................................................................................16
HP Insight Recovery configuration overview.................................................................................16
3 Testing and failover operations..................................................................................17
Testing Recovery Groups......................................................................................................................17
Failover operations...............................................................................................................................18
Planned failover...............................................................................................................................18
Unplanned failover..........................................................................................................................18
Target selection and parallelism of activation during a Change local site to Primary Site
operation...............................................................................................................................................19
4 Issues, limitations and suggested actions..................................................................21
Limitations............................................................................................................................................21
No automatic synchronization of configuration between sites.......................................................21
HP Insight Recovery job information is not preserved in certain scenarios...................................21
Minor issues..........................................................................................................................................21
ESX configuration setting required for VMFS datastores of HP Insight Recovery managed logical
servers to be visible at Recovery Site...............................................................................................21
Convert local site to Primary or Recovery Site operation hangs.....................................................21
Identical configuration of logical servers between sites..................................................................22
One Raid Manager instance per XP Storage Management Server and One Raid Manager instance
per XP device group........................................................................................................................22
CLX/XP software must be installed on a separate Windows system..............................................22
One Active HP Insight Recovery configuration operation at any point in time.............................22
Site delete operation in HP Insight Recovery does not remove SIM tools......................................22
5 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................25
Configuration troubleshooting.............................................................................................................25
HP Insight Recovery troubleshooting..................................................................................................28
HP Insight Recovery log files................................................................................................................32
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