Setting up sites, About sites, Relationship between sites and resource groups – HP XP Racks User Manual

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Setting up sites

Sites allow you to manually group resources under one name for easier management. You can define
your own site and register resources such as hosts and storage systems. Grouping of resources into
logical sites is especially useful when you have remote sites. Although you can define logical sites
with any combination of resources, managing many resources from the web interface is easier when
logical sites are created based on the resources of actual sites.

To set up logical sites, from the Explorer menu, choose Shared Views and then Sites.

For details on how to add sites, see

Adding sites

” on page 97.

Related topics

Adding storage systems to a site

, page 99

Adding hosts to a site

, page 98

Adding pair management servers to a site

, page 100

About sites

With Replication Manager, you can define logical sites in the GUI just as you would define actual
physical sites (actual data centers). If you set up separate sites, you can manage resources more
efficiently because it is easier to locate a required resource among many resources displayed in the
GUI.

Hosts, storage systems, and copy pair configuration definitions (pair management servers) can be
specified for any site. Although more than one resource can be specified for each site, a particular
resource cannot be specified for more than one site.

Sites are managed by users with the Admin (Replication Manager management) permission. Each
user can view the resources that belong to any site within the range of resource groups assigned to
that user for access control.

To view the relationships between sites and resource groups, see “

Relationship between sites and

resource groups

” on page 96.

Relationship between sites and resource groups

The following figure shows the relationships between sites and resource groups.

Organizing resources

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