HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface........................................................................................................5
Publishing history......................................................................................................................5
1 Overview..................................................................................................6
2 Installing and configuring Matrix recovery management..................................8
Installation and configuration overview........................................................................................8
Installation and configuration prerequisites...................................................................................8
Installing and licensing Matrix recovery management....................................................................8
Uninstall instructions.............................................................................................................8
Networking setup.....................................................................................................................9
Storage setup.........................................................................................................................10
General storage set up notes...............................................................................................11
HP P6000 storage setup notes.............................................................................................11
HP P9000 storage setup notes.............................................................................................11
HP 3PAR storage setup notes...............................................................................................12
Creating and installing a User Defined storage adapter..........................................................13
Local Site logical server setup...................................................................................................15
Remote Site logical server setup................................................................................................16
Configuring Matrix recovery management.................................................................................17
Matrix recovery management GUI overview..........................................................................17
Matrix recovery management configuration steps...................................................................18
About Matrix recovery management export and import...........................................................19
3 Testing and failover operations...................................................................21
Testing Recovery Groups..........................................................................................................21
Failover operations.................................................................................................................22
Planned failover.................................................................................................................22
Unplanned failover............................................................................................................23
Target selection and parallelism during an activation operation....................................................24
4 Dynamic workload movement with CloudSystem Matrix: Fluid movement between
physical and virtual resources for flexibility and cost-effective recovery................25
Capabilities and limitations......................................................................................................26
Supported platforms...........................................................................................................28
Overview of physical to virtual cross-technology configuration.......................................................29
Configuring logical servers for movement between physical and virtual targets...........................29
Configuring logical servers for movement between dissimilar physical servers............................32
Configuring and managing portable OS images........................................................................32
Portable Images Storage Assistant (PISA)...............................................................................32
Portable Images Network Tool (PINT)....................................................................................33
Configuring and managing cross-technology logical servers.........................................................33
Portability groups...............................................................................................................33
Defining cross-technology logical servers...............................................................................35
Placing a logical server into a Portability Group................................................................35
Storage definition..........................................................................................................37
Moving between technologies.............................................................................................38
Target attributes.................................................................................................................39
Moving between blade types..............................................................................................39
Managing DR Protected cross-technology logical servers in a Matrix recovery management
configuration..........................................................................................................................39
Setting failover target type preference...................................................................................40
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