HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere Licenses - Manual (Page 37)

Creating Remote Virtual Copies of Storage Groups
How Remote Virtual Copy Works
When you create remote virtual copies, Recovery Manager uses Remote Copy to send the virtual
copies to the Remote Copy backup server. The Remote Copy backup server is a remote server that
is the Recovery Manager backup server.
To use remote virtual copy functionality:
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The HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software license must be installed.
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Remote Copy volume groups must be configured.
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Both the Remote Copy primary server and backup server must be running the same version
of Recovery Manager.
For more information, see “Remote Copy for Recovery Manager” (page 92) .
Manually Creating a Remote Virtual Copy of a Storage Group
To create a remote virtual copy of a storage group:
1.
In the node tree pane, right-click the storage group for which you want to create a virtual
copy, and select Create
→Remote Virtual Copy.
2. In the Validate Virtual Copy area, select whether you want Recovery Manager to validate the
server name or skip validation of the virtual copy, and whether you want Recovery Manager
to defer log truncation (if validating) or truncate the log (if skipping validation).
3. Optional: If you want to adjust the expiration or retention time values (or both) for this virtual
copy (or, if you are scheduling automatic copies, this group of virtual copies):
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To adjust the expiration time, check the Expiration Time checkbox and enter the new
expiration time.
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To adjust the retention time, check the Retention Time checkbox and enter the new retention
time.
Even if the policy has a retention time value, you can override the policy for an individual
virtual copy in this Retention Time checkbox. Valid values are 0 (for no retention time) to
43,800 hours/1,825 days.
For more information, see “Setting the Recovery Manager Policy Configuration” (page 31) .
4. Click Next.
5. In the Target Server Name field, enter the name of the Remote Copy target server.
6. Optional: To view the policy values for the remote server, click Fetch Policy.
7. Optional. To edit the modifiable remote server policy values for the remote virtual copy (or
copies) you are creating, make your changes in the Policy Info area.
8. To immediately create one remote virtual copy, click Finish in the Create Remote Virtual Copy
dialog box.
Creating a Virtual Copy of an LCR-Enabled Storage Group
You can use Recovery Manager to create a virtual copy of a storage group for which Local
Continuous Replication (LCR) is enabled.
When you create an LCR virtual copy, Recovery Manager uses Exchange’s LCR copy as the source
of the virtual copy. (An LCR copy is a replica of a storage group, created using Exchange’s LCR
feature, that is continually updated with Exchange data.) Recovery Manager also creates a virtual
copy of all virtual volumes where the information store, log, and system files reside in order to
preserve the data for consistency.
To create an LCR virtual copy of a storage group:
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