HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software User Manual

HP Storage

HP StorageWorks P9000 Replication Manager
Software

User Guide

Part number: TB584-96023
Eighth edition: April 2011

This manual is related to the following products:

XP Array Manager Software XP Command View Advanced Edition Software

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User Guide
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
- About Replication Manager
  - Example of a replication environment
- Replication Manager features
- Architecture and components
- System configurations
- Replication Manager operations roadmap
2 Getting started
- Initial setup
  - Initial settings configuration workflow
- Preparing the replication environment
- Setting up the prerequisite environment (mainframe systems)
- Setting up the prerequisite environment (application replicas)
- Confirming the prerequisite environment
- Logging in and out
- Quick start
3 Replication Manager console
- Understanding the console layout
- Functional views
4 Setting up information sources
- About information sources
- Registering information sources
- Setting up Application Agent
5 Discovering volumes
- Discovering volumes (open systems)
- Discovering volumes (mainframe)
6 Setting up authorities
- Adding users and assigning permissions
- Setting up resource groups
  - About resource groups
    - Device Manager versus Replication Manager resource groups
    - Example of resource groups
  - Creating resource groups
7 Organizing resources
- About resources
- Setting up sites
  - About sites
    - Relationship between sites and resource groups
  - Adding sites
- Setting up My Copy Groups
  - About My Copy Groups
    - Examples of My Copy Groups
  - Creating My Copy Groups
8 Setting up storage systems
- About setting up storage systems
  - Storage system setup functions
  - Explorer menu items for setting up storage systems
- Prerequisite settings for replicating volumes
- Setting up V-VOLs
- Setting up command devices
- Setting up remote paths
- Setting up pool volumes
- Setting up journal groups
9 Customizing monitoring parameters
- Setting up alerts
- Setting up refresh intervals
  - Calculating the copy pair status refresh interval
- Setting up data retention periods
10 Managing pair life cycle
- About pair life cycle management
- Copy pair management functions
- Explorer menu items for copy pair management
- About the pair management wizards
  - About the Pair Configuration Wizard
  - Pair configuration workflow
  - Launching the Pair Configuration Wizard
    - Limitations for launching the Pair Configuration Wizard
- Pair configuration definition workflow
- Defining copy pairs and pair groups
  - About copy pairs
  - Create copy pair workflow
  - About copy pair configuration definitions
    - About configuration definition file formats
  - About creating copy pair configuration definitions
  - Creating pairs and pair groups
  - Editing pair names
  - About filtering candidate volumes
    - Conditions affecting displayed storage system information
  - Selecting multiple candidate volumes
- Defining copy groups
  - About copy groups
    - Copy group requirements for pair configuration (mainframe systems)
  - About assigning CTGID/JNLGID for copy pairs
    - Conditions for creating local copy pairs with the CTG option
  - Configuring open and mainframe consistency groups
  - About HORCM instances
  - Creating copy groups
  - Associating pair groups with copy groups
- Creating a container with multiple copy groups (mainframe systems)
  - Supported copy group and container combinations
- Defining multi-target and cascade configurations
  - About multi target and cascade copy pair configurations
  - About delta resync
    - Limitations when performing 3DC configuration pair operations (mainframe systems)
  - Defining copy groups in a multi-target or cascade configuration
  - Creating a 3DC multi-target configuration
- Scheduling and managing tasks
- About tasks
- About task statuses
- About task types (open systems)
- About task types (mainframe systems)
- Scheduling tasks
  - Modifying task execution schedule
  - Editing tasks
- Viewing a list of tasks
- Canceling tasks
- Deleting tasks
- Distributing copy group definitions (mainframe)
  - About distributing copy group definitions
  - About pre-distribution of copy group definition files
  - Confirming distribution hosts
- Creating and managing workflows
  - About workflows
  - Saving workflows
  - Viewing a list of workflows
  - Editing workflows
  - Deleting workflows
- Managing copy pair configuration definitions
  - About editing copy pair configuration definitions
    - Prerequisites for changing copy pair configuration (mainframe systems)
    - Relationship between managed resources and memory heap size
  - Adding copy pairs (completed workflow)
  - Editing copy groups by associating new pair groups
    - Conditions for copy types to be displayed (open systems)
    - Conditions for copy types to be displayed (mainframe systems)
  - Editing copy groups by associating new copy pairs
  - Editing copy groups by setting copy type
  - Editing copy group settings
    - About inheritance of copy group configuration options from BCM
    - Copy group settings options (mainframe)
  - Deleting copy groups
  - Deleting copy pairs from copy groups
  - Importing existing configuration definition files
  - Modifying imported configuration definition files
- Performing pair operations
  - About copy pair operations
  - About copy pair status
    - Copy pair status categories
    - Conditions for determining copy pair status
  - About copy pair states
    - Correspondence between copy pair states and the copy pair statuses in prerequisite products
  - Changing copy pair status
  - Confirming copy status during task execution
  - Advanced pair operations and recovery scenarios
  - Advanced operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands
- Monitoring and managing storage systems using virtual command devices
  - About virtual command devices
  - Prerequisites for virtual command device configurations
  - Setting up an SVP as a virtual command device
  - Using a Virtual Command Device server
  - Performing user authentication for replica operations
- Monitoring and management of copy groups defined in storage
  - About copy groups defined in storage
  - Prerequisites for copy group configurations defined in storage
  - Unsupported copy group configurations defined in storage
11 Refreshing management information
- About refreshing management information
  - Functions for refreshing management information
  - Explorer menu items for refreshing management information
- Refreshing copy pair status
- Refreshing configuration information
12 System monitoring
- About system monitoring
- Monitoring configuration information
- Monitoring pair status
- Monitoring performance of remote copies
- Monitoring license usage
  - Checking copy license usage
- Monitoring application replicas
13 Managing resources
- Resource management functions
- Explorer menu items for resource management
- Viewing a list of copy pair configurations
- Viewing a list of copy pairs associated with a task
- Viewing a list of hosts
- Viewing a list of storage systems
- Viewing a summary of storage systems
- Viewing DEVN information (mainframe systems)
- Viewing individual host information
- Viewing individual storage system information
- Viewing information about copy groups belonging to a copy pair configuration definition
- Icons representing a copy topology
- Viewing copy group information in the Pair Configurations view (mainframe systems)
- Viewing copy group information in the Pair Configurations view (open systems)
- Viewing information about copy groups belonging to a host
- Viewing copy group information in the Hosts view (mainframe systems)
- Viewing copy group information in the Hosts view (open systems)
- Viewing information about pair management servers
- Viewing information about prefixes belonging to a host (mainframe systems)
- Viewing information about volumes belonging to a host
- Viewing information about volumes belonging to a storage system
- Viewing information about CUs belonging to a storage system (mainframe systems)
- Viewing LDEV information
  - LDEV display format
- Viewing LUN information in the Storage Systems view (open systems)
- Viewing LUN information in the Hosts view (open systems)
- Viewing storage system information (mainframe systems)
- Viewing storage system information (open systems)
- Viewing information about LDKCs belonging to a storage system (mainframe systems)
14 Managing My Copy Groups
- My Copy Groups management functions
- Explorer menu items for My Copy Groups management
- Checking My Copy Groups
- Editing My Copy Groups
15 Managing storage systems
- Managing V-VOLs
- Managing command devices
  - Editing command devices
  - Deleting command devices
- Managing remote paths
  - Editing a remote path
  - About deleting remote paths
- Managing pool volumes
  - Editing pools
  - Deleting pools
- Managing journal groups
  - Editing journal groups
  - Deleting journal groups
16 Managing sites
- About site administration
- Viewing a list of sites
- Viewing individual site information
- Editing sites
- Removing hosts from a site
- Removing storage systems from a site
- Removing pair management servers from a site
- Removing applications from a site
- Deleting sites
  - Deleting individual sites
  - Deleting multiple sites
17 Managing alerts
- About alert management
  - Alert management functions
  - Explorer menu items for alert management
- Enabling or disabling alert settings
- Viewing the alert list and the alert settings list
- Testing alert settings
- Editing alert settings
- Marking alerts as completed
- Deleting alert settings
- Disabling or enabling alert automarking
18 Managing licenses
- About licenses
  - Functions for license management
  - Explorer menu items for license management
- Viewing license information
- Editing a license
19 Managing users and permissions
- User management functions
- Explorer menu items for user management
- Managing users
- Managing user permissions
  - Viewing a list of user permissions
  - Viewing a summary of user permissions
- Managing user profiles
- Managing user accounts and user authentication
20 Managing security
- About security settings
  - Functions for setting security
  - Explorer menu items for setting security
- Viewing conditions for passwords
- Changing conditions for passwords
- Viewing settings for automatic account locking
- Changing settings for automatic account locking
- About warning banners
- Viewing a preview of the warning banner
- Editing a warning banner
- Deleting a warning banner
21 Managing resource groups
- About resource group management
  - Resource group management functions
  - Explorer menu items for resource group management
- Editing resource groups
- Viewing a list of resource groups
- Viewing individual resource group information
- Removing hosts from a resource group
- Removing storage systems from a resource group
- Removing users from a resource group
- Removing applications from a resource group
- Deleting resource groups
  - Deleting individual resource groups
  - Deleting multiple resource groups
22 Managing information sources
- Viewing a list of information sources
- Editing information sources
- Removing information sources
- Updating storage system information
  - Updating registered information workflow
  - Example of updating information registered in Replication Manager
23 Managing application replicas
- About application replicas
- Managing generations (replica rotation)
- About storage groups and information stores
- Check replica configuration workflow
- Precautions for replica operations
- Replica data types and configuration requirements
- Software that should not be used during replica operations
- About creating application replicas
  - Create application replica workflow
- About the Create Replica Wizard
- Launching the Create Replica Wizard
- Creating an application replica
- Restoring application replicas
- Using Agent backup scripts (tape backups)
- Performing tape backups and restores
- Replica operations in an SQL Server replication configuration
- Mounting and unmounting application replicas
- Checking the status of application replicas
  - Check status of a replica workflow
- Confirming application resources
24 Handling errors
- About handling errors
- Monitoring events using event logs
  - About event logs
    - Event log management functions
    - Explorer menu (event logging)
  - Viewing a list of event log data
    - Icons for messages
- Troubleshooting the replication environment
  - Troubleshooting the replication environment workflow
- About MIB definition files
25 Exporting management information
- About exporting management information
  - Management information export functions
  - Explorer menu (exporting management information)
- Exporting alert history
- Exporting event log data
- Exporting the history of C/T delta
- Exporting the history of journal volume usage for each copy group
- Exporting the history of journal volume usage for each journal group
- Exporting the history of pool volume usage
- Exporting the history of sidefile usage
26 System maintenance
- About system maintenance
  - Functions for Replication Manager maintenance
  - Explorer menu items for Replication Manager maintenance
- About operation modes
- Viewing the operation mode
- Changing the operation mode
- Expanding journal group capacity
27 Support and other resources
- Contacting HP
- Related information
- Product references
A Web browser
- Configuring a web browser to use Web client
- Restrictions related to web browsers
B Icons
- Icons for executing operations
- Icons for executing screen operations
- Icons representing copy pair statuses
- Icons representing the management target
C Exceptions
- Cautionary notes for Web client
- Window display in Mozilla or Firefox
- When the copy pair configuration does not match definition information
  - Configuration in which copy groups containing copy pairs in simplex status and a configuration definition file exist (open systems)
  - Example configuration in which two copy group definition files are used for the same copy group (for mainframe systems)
- When the copy pair configuration is complex
  - Example of complex cascade configuration 1
  - Example of complex cascade configuration 2
- Restrictions when Replication Manager and Device Manager versions differ
- When the displayed information depends on the system configuration
  - Example configuration in which data is remotely copied between multiple sites (for open systems)
- When multiple Replication Manager servers manage the same information source
- When Replication Manager handles multiple prefixes (mainframe systems)
D Display formats
- Display formats used when no pertinent information is available
- Display format of multi-valued information items for a management target
- Display format of copy type
E Supported functions
- Supported paths for acquiring information and performing processing
- List of tasks supported for each storage system
- Unsupported configurations (open systems)
Glossary
Index