HP Storage Mirroring V5 Software - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
Preface .........................................................................................................................................i
Intended Audience ....................................................................................................................................i
Organization of This Guide ......................................................................................................................i
Conventions Used in This Guide .............................................................................................................i
Online References ....................................................................................................................................ii
Online help ................................................................................................................................................................................................. ii
Online manual ............................................................................................................................................................................................ ii
Chapter 1: Introduction to Storage Mirroring ......................................................................1-1
Storage Mirroring Features ..................................................................................................... 1-2
High availability and disaster recovery management features ...................................................................................................... 1-2
Resource utilization features ............................................................................................................................................................... 1-2
Improved backup benefits ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1-2
Other features and benefits ................................................................................................................................................................. 1-2
Storage Mirroring Operations ................................................................................................ 1-3
Mirroring ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-3
Replication ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1-4
Failure monitoring/failover ................................................................................................................................................................... 1-5
Restoration ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-6
Sample Configurations ............................................................................................................ 1-7
One-to-One, Active/Standby ............................................................................................................................................................... 1-7
One-to-One, Active/Active .................................................................................................................................................................. 1-8
Many-to-One ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-9
One-to-Many ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-10
Chained ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-11
Single Machine ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-12
Chapter 2: Management Console ...........................................................................................2-1
Starting the Management Console .........................................................................................2-1
Understanding the Display ...................................................................................................... 2-2
Management Console toolbar ............................................................................................................................................................. 2-4
Logging On and Off of Storage Mirroring .............................................................................. 2-5
Stopping the daemon ...............................................................................................................2-5
Storage Mirroring Ports .......................................................................................................... 2-6
Management Console ports ................................................................................................................................................................. 2-6
Storage Mirroring server ports ........................................................................................................................................................... 2-7
Inserting a Server ..................................................................................................................... 2-8
Storage Mirroring Workspaces .............................................................................................. 2-9
Saving a workspace ................................................................................................................................................................................. 2-9
Opening a workspace ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2-9
Getting Help for the Management Console .......................................................................... 2-9
Exiting the Management Console .......................................................................................... 2-9