HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Matrix recovery management Overview........................................................5
2 Installing and configuring Matrix recovery management..................................8
Installation and configuration overview........................................................................................8
Installation and configuration prerequisites...................................................................................8
Installing and licensing Matrix recovery management....................................................................9
Uninstalling Matrix recovery management...............................................................................9
Setting up Networking..............................................................................................................9
Setting up Storage..................................................................................................................10
General storage setup notes................................................................................................11
HP P6000 storage setup notes.............................................................................................11
HP P9000 storage setup notes.............................................................................................12
HP 3PAR storage setup notes...............................................................................................13
Creating and installing a User Defined storage adapter..........................................................13
Setting up Local Site logical servers...........................................................................................16
Setting up Remote Site logical servers........................................................................................16
Configuring Matrix recovery management.................................................................................17
Matrix recovery management GUI overview..........................................................................17
Matrix recovery management configuration steps...................................................................18
Matrix recovery management export and import operations....................................................20
DR protection for IO services....................................................................................................22
DR Protection of IO services configuration overview................................................................22
Configure IO properties......................................................................................................23
Configure OO workflow for optional email notification...........................................................25
Network configuration........................................................................................................25
3 Testing and failover operations...................................................................27
Testing Recovery Groups..........................................................................................................27
Failover operations.................................................................................................................28
Planned failover.................................................................................................................28
Unplanned failover............................................................................................................30
Target selection and parallelism during an activation operation....................................................31
4 Dynamic workload movement with CloudSystem Matrix.................................32
Capabilities and limitations......................................................................................................33
Supported platforms...........................................................................................................36
Overview of physical to virtual cross-technology configuration.......................................................36
Configuring logical servers for movement between physical and virtual targets...........................36
Configuring logical servers for movement between dissimilar physical servers............................39
Configuring and managing portable OS images........................................................................39
Portable Images Storage Assistant (PISA)...............................................................................39
Portable Images Network Tool (PINT)....................................................................................40
Configuring and managing cross-technology logical servers.........................................................40
Portability groups...............................................................................................................40
Defining cross-technology logical servers...............................................................................42
Placing a logical server into a portability group................................................................42
Storage definition..........................................................................................................44
Moving between technologies.............................................................................................45
Target attributes.................................................................................................................46
Moving between blade types..............................................................................................47
Managing DR Protected cross-technology logical servers in a Matrix recovery management
configuration..........................................................................................................................47
Setting a failover target type preference................................................................................47
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