HP XP RAID Manager Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................8
About RAID Manager...............................................................................................................8
RAID Manager functions available on the P9500 storage system....................................................8
Provisioning function.............................................................................................................9
Asynchronous command processing.......................................................................................9
Command execution modes..................................................................................................9
Precheck function...............................................................................................................10
Command execution by the out-of-band method.....................................................................10
User authentication............................................................................................................11
LDEV nickname function......................................................................................................12
LDEV grouping function......................................................................................................12
Resource group function......................................................................................................12
Resource group locking function...........................................................................................13
RAID Manager functions available on all RAID storage systems....................................................13
In-system replication...........................................................................................................13
Remote replication.............................................................................................................13
Data protection..................................................................................................................13
2 RAID Manager software environment..........................................................14
Overview of the RAID Manager software environment.................................................................14
RAID Manager components on the RAID storage system..............................................................14
Command device...............................................................................................................14
Command device guarding............................................................................................15
Alternate command device function.................................................................................16
Define the remote command device.................................................................................17
RAID Manager and the SCSI command interface...................................................................17
Command competition...................................................................................................18
Command flow.............................................................................................................18
Issuing commands for LDEVs within a LUSE device.............................................................19
RAID Manager instance components on the host server...............................................................19
HORCM operational environment........................................................................................19
RAID Manager instance configurations.................................................................................20
Host machines that can be paired........................................................................................22
Configuration definition file.................................................................................................23
Overview.....................................................................................................................23
Configuration definition file settings.................................................................................25
Configuration definition for cascading volume pairs...............................................................32
Configuration file and mirror descriptors...........................................................................32
Cascading connection and configuration files...................................................................33
Business Copy..............................................................................................................34
Cascading connections for Continuous Access Synchronous and Business Copy....................35
RAID Manager software files....................................................................................................38
RAID Manager files supplied with the software......................................................................38
RAID Manager files for UNIX-based systems.....................................................................38
RAID Manager files for Windows-based systems...............................................................39
RAID Manager files for OpenVMS-based systems..............................................................40
RAID Manager log and trace files.............................................................................................41
RAID Manager log files......................................................................................................42
RAID Manager trace files....................................................................................................43
RAID Manager trace control command.................................................................................43
Command error logging for audit........................................................................................44
Logging other than raidcom command.............................................................................44
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