HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Matrix recovery management Overview........................................................5
2 Installing and configuring Matrix recovery management..................................8
Installation and configuration overview........................................................................................8
Installation and configuration prerequisites...................................................................................8
Installing and licensing Matrix recovery management....................................................................8
Uninstalling Matrix recovery management...............................................................................9
Setting up Networking..............................................................................................................9
Setting up Storage..................................................................................................................10
General storage setup notes................................................................................................11
HP P6000 storage setup notes.............................................................................................11
HP P9000 storage setup notes.............................................................................................12
HP 3PAR storage setup notes...............................................................................................12
Creating and installing a User Defined storage adapter..........................................................13
Setting up Local Site logical servers...........................................................................................16
Setting up Remote Site logical servers........................................................................................16
Configuring Matrix recovery management.................................................................................17
Matrix recovery management GUI overview..........................................................................17
Matrix recovery management configuration steps...................................................................18
Matrix recovery management export and import operations....................................................20
DR protection for IO services....................................................................................................22
DR Protection of IO services configuration overview................................................................22
Configure IO properties......................................................................................................23
Configure OO workflow for optional email notification...........................................................24
Network configuration........................................................................................................25
3 Testing and failover operations...................................................................26
Testing Recovery Groups..........................................................................................................26
Failover operations.................................................................................................................27
Planned failover.................................................................................................................27
Unplanned failover............................................................................................................28
Target selection and parallelism during an activation operation....................................................30
4 Dynamic workload movement with CloudSystem Matrix.................................31
Capabilities and limitations......................................................................................................32
Supported platforms...........................................................................................................35
Overview of physical to virtual cross-technology configuration.......................................................35
Configuring logical servers for movement between physical and virtual targets...........................35
Configuring logical servers for movement between dissimilar physical servers............................38
Configuring and managing portable OS images........................................................................38
Portable Images Storage Assistant (PISA)...............................................................................38
Portable Images Network Tool (PINT)....................................................................................39
Configuring and managing cross-technology logical servers.........................................................39
Portability groups...............................................................................................................39
Defining cross-technology logical servers...............................................................................41
Placing a logical server into a portability group................................................................41
Storage definition..........................................................................................................43
Moving between technologies.............................................................................................44
Target attributes.................................................................................................................45
Moving between blade types..............................................................................................46
Managing DR Protected cross-technology logical servers in a Matrix recovery management
configuration..........................................................................................................................46
Setting a failover target type preference................................................................................46
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