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Data replication – HP 3000 Enterprise Virtual Array User Manual

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Command View EVA

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Enterprise Virtual Array 3000 User Guide

Locating a disk group

causes an LED to light up allowing you to identify

the physical drives that make up the disk group.

Ungrouping a disk

removes a disk from a disk group.

Note:

The disk is not deleted from the disk group but is actually

ungrouped

. If the disk

is to be removed from the rack, use the locate function so that it can be physically

identified in the rack before it is ungrouped.

You cannot delete the only disk group (such as the default disk group). The Delete

button is not visible if only one disk group is present.

For more information about disk drives, see

Fibre Channel Disk Drives

” on

page 81.

Data Replication

If Continuous Access EVA is installed, Command View EVA provides
host-independent data replication across two or more Enterprise Virtual Arrays.
The storage systems can be located at the same physical site or different physical
sites. When the storage systems are located at different sites, Command View
EVA provides a disaster tolerant storage and data replication solution.

Command View EVA manages data replication functions by organizing Vdisks
into data replication (DR) groups. DR groups allow you to manage the replication
of a set of Vdisks. The Data Replication folder is accessible using the folder
structure in the Navigation pane, as shown in

Figure 24

.

You can perform the following data replication tasks:

Add a Vdisk to a DR group

add the selected destination Vdisk family to the

DR group.

Create a DR group

create up to 64 DR groups in a storage system.

Fail over a DR group

when a failure occurs in your source storage system,

data fails over to the destination storage system to allow continued access.

Modify a DR group

modify the name and failsafe properties of a DR group.

Delete a DR group

delete a DR group from a source storage system.

For detailed information on the use of Command View EVA data replication
functions, refer to Command View EVA online help.