Document Outline

• User Guide
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
  • About Replication Manager
    • Example of a replication environment
  • Replication Manager features
  • Architecture and components
  • System configurations
  • Replication Manager operations roadmap
• 2 Getting started
  • Using the Help system
  • Initial setup
    • Initial settings configuration workflow
  • Setting up redundant pair management server configurations
    • About redundant pair management server configurations
    • Registering redundant pair management server nodes (while creating a copy group)
    • Registering redundant pair management servers manually
    • Adding pair management server nodes
    • Deleting pair management server nodes
    • Identifying a pair management server associated with a copy group
  • Confirming the prerequisite environment
  • Logging in and out
  • Quick start
• 3 Replication Manager console
  • Understanding the console layout
    • Global tasks bar area
    • Explorer menu
    • Dashboard menu
    • Application bar area
    • Navigation area
    • Application area
    • Object tree
    • Dialog box
  • Functional views
    • Hosts subwindow
    • Structure of the Hosts view
    • Storage Systems subwindow
    • Structure of the Storage Systems view
    • Pair configurations subwindow
    • Structure of the Pair Configurations view
    • Applications subwindow
    • Structure of the Applications view
• 4 Setting up information sources
  • About information sources
  • Registering information sources
    • Registering information sources workflow
    • Adding a Device Manager server
    • Adding an instance of HP StorageWorks P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software or XP7 mainframe agent
    • When multiple BCM instances have overlapping configuration definition files
  • Setting up Application Agent
    • About application discovery
    • Adding an instance of Application Agent
    • Setting Application Agent options
      • Settings for virtual hosts and cluster configurations
    • About concealing/revealing replica volumes
    • Parallel verification count and number of backup servers
    • About VDI generation timeout
    • Refreshing Application Agent
• 5 Discovering volumes
  • Discovering volumes (open systems)
  • Discovering volumes (mainframe)
    • About mainframe volume discovery
    • Volume scan
      • About volume scans
      • Example volume scan procedure
      • Types of volume scans
      • Setting volume ranges for volume scan
      • Adding a volume range to a volume range list
      • Restrictions for adding volume ranges for volume scans
      • Deleting a volume range from a volume range list
      • Restrictions for deleting volume ranges
    • Performing a volume scan
    • Distributing and managing disk configurations
      • About distributing disk configurations
      • Example disk list distribution scenario
      • Prerequisites for distribution destination hosts (disk configuration definitions)
      • Conditions affecting displayed disk list information
      • Selecting targets for disk configuration distribution
      • Displaying disk configuration definition files
      • Editing disk configuration definition files
    • Reviewing mainframe volumes
      • Reviewing paired DEVN list
      • Reviewing paired LDEV list
      • Reviewing unpaired DEVN list
      • Reviewing unpaired LDEV list
• 6 Setting up authorities
  • Adding users and assigning permissions
    • About users, permissions, and roles
    • About user roles
    • About permissions and user roles
    • About user roles and wizards
    • Adding users
    • Changing user permissions
  • Setting up resource groups
    • About resource groups
      • Example of resource groups
    • Creating resource groups
      • Adding hosts to a resource group
      • Adding storage systems to a resource group
      • Adding users to a resource group
      • Relationships between resource groups and user permissions
      • Adding applications to a resource group
• 7 Organizing resources
  • About resources
  • Setting up sites
    • About sites
      • Relationship between sites and resource groups
    • Adding sites
      • Adding information sources to sites workflow
      • Adding hosts to a site
      • Adding storage systems to a site
      • Adding pair management servers to a site
      • Adding application servers to a site
  • Setting up My Copy Groups
    • About My Copy Groups
      • Examples of My Copy Groups
    • Creating My Copy Groups
• 8 Setting up storage systems
  • About setting up storage systems
    • Storage system setup functions
    • Explorer menu items for setting up storage systems
  • Prerequisite settings for replicating volumes
  • Setting up V-VOLs
    • About creating V-VOLs
      • V-VOL limits
      • Prerequisites for creating V-VOLs
      • Conditions for primary volumes that can be added (V-VOL Creation)
      • Permitted V-VOL operations based on CVS installation
    • About the Create V-VOL Wizard
    • Launching the Create V-VOL Wizard
    • Creating V-VOLs
  • Setting up command devices
    • About command devices
      • Storage system types and volume requirements (command devices)
    • About the Add Command Devices Wizard
    • Launching the Add Command Devices Wizard
    • Adding command devices
  • Setting up remote paths
    • About remote paths
    • Conditions for specifying remote paths
    • About the Create Remote Path Wizard
    • Creating a remote path
  • Setting up pool volumes
    • About pool volumes
    • Storage system types and volume requirements (pools)
    • About the Create Pool Wizard
    • Launching the Create Pool Wizard
    • Adding pools
  • Setting up journal groups
    • About journal groups
    • Storage system types and volume requirements (journal)
    • Items permitted for journal options
    • Items permitted for mirror options
    • About the Create Journal Group Wizard
    • Create journal group workflow
    • Launching the Create Journal Group Wizard
    • Adding journal groups
• 9 Customizing monitoring parameters
  • Setting up alerts
    • About alert settings
      • Copy pair status
      • Performance threshold
      • Copy license usage threshold
      • Alert completion
      • Alert retention
      • Alert limits
    • About the Create Alert Setting Wizard
    • Alert setting workflow
    • Launching the Create Alert Setting Wizard
    • Setting the copy pair status monitoring conditions for each copy group
    • Setting the copy pair status monitoring conditions for each copy pair
    • Setting performance monitoring conditions for each copy group
    • Setting performance monitoring conditions for each journal group
    • Setting performance monitoring conditions for each pool
    • Setting monitoring conditions for copy license usage
    • Adding monitored targets
  • Setting up refresh intervals
    • Calculating the copy pair status refresh interval
  • Setting up data retention periods
    • About data retention periods
    • Viewing the data retention period
    • Editing the data retention period
• 10 Managing pair life cycle
  • About pair life cycle management
    • Copy pair management functions
    • Explorer menu items for copy pair management
  • About the pair management wizards
    • About the Pair Configuration Wizard
    • Pair configuration workflow
    • Launching the Pair Configuration Wizard
      • Limitations for launching the Pair Configuration Wizard
  • Pair configuration definition workflow
  • Defining copy pairs and pair groups
    • About copy pairs
    • Create copy pair workflow
    • About copy pair configuration definitions
      • About configuration definition file formats
    • About creating copy pair configuration definitions
      • Copy pair configuration conditions
      • Prerequisites for pair configuration
      • Storage system conditions for pair configuration definition
      • Conditions for volume selection
      • Conditions for primary volumes that can be added (open systems)
      • Conditions for primary volumes that can be added (mainframe systems)
      • Conditions for secondary volumes that can be added (open systems)
      • Conditions for secondary volumes that can be added (mainframe systems)
    • Creating pairs and pair groups
    • Editing pair names
    • About filtering candidate volumes
      • Conditions affecting displayed storage system information
    • Selecting multiple candidate volumes
    • About volume capacity checking
  • Defining copy groups
    • About copy groups
      • Copy group requirements for pair configuration (mainframe systems)
    • About assigning CTGID/JNLGID for copy pairs
      • Conditions for creating local copy pairs with the CTG option
    • Configuring open and mainframe consistency groups
    • About HORCM instances
    • Creating copy groups
    • Changing copy group names
    • Associating pair groups with copy groups
  • Creating a container with multiple copy groups (mainframe systems)
    • Supported copy group and container combinations
  • Defining multi-target and cascade configurations
    • About multi target and cascade copy pair configurations
      • Copy type requirements for pair configuration definitions
      • Permitted topologies for cascade and multi-target configurations
    • About delta resync
      • Limitations when performing 3DC configuration pair operations (mainframe systems)
    • Defining copy groups in a multi-target or cascade configuration
    • Creating a 3DC multi-target configuration
  • Using snapshot groups
    • About snapshot groups
    • Snapshot group requirements
    • Snapshot group configuration workflow
    • Creating a snapshot group
    • Viewing or modifying snapshot groups
    • Deleting a snapshot group
    • Changing the pair management server for snapshot groups
    • Migrating copy groups to snapshot groups
  • Scheduling and managing tasks
    • About tasks
    • About task statuses
    • About task types (open systems)
    • About task types (mainframe systems)
    • Scheduling tasks
      • Modifying task execution schedule
      • Editing tasks
    • Viewing a list of tasks
    • Canceling tasks
    • Deleting tasks
  • Distributing copy group definitions (mainframe)
    • About distributing copy group definitions
      • Example of copy group definition distribution scenario
      • Prerequisites for distribution destination hosts (copy group definitions)
      • Conditions for changing copy group distribution primary host
      • Conditions that disrupt copy group distribution relationships
    • About pre-distribution of copy group definition files
    • Confirming distribution hosts
  • Creating and managing workflows
    • About workflows
    • Saving workflows
    • Viewing a list of workflows
    • Editing workflows
    • Deleting workflows
  • Managing copy pair configuration definitions
    • About editing copy pair configuration definitions
      • Prerequisites for changing copy pair configuration (mainframe systems)
      • Relationship between managed resources and memory heap size
    • Adding copy pairs (completed workflow)
    • Editing copy groups or snapshot groups by associating new pair groups
      • Conditions for copy types to be displayed (open systems)
      • Conditions for copy types to be displayed (mainframe systems)
    • Editing copy groups or snapshot groups by associating new copy pairs
    • Editing copy groups by setting copy type
    • Editing copy group settings
      • About inheritance of copy group configuration options from BCM
      • Copy group settings options (mainframe)
    • Editing a path group ID
    • Deleting copy groups
    • Deleting copy pairs from copy groups
    • Importing existing configuration definition files
    • Modifying imported configuration definition files
  • Performing pair operations
    • About copy pair operations
      • Option items for copy pair operations (open systems)
      • Option items for copy pair operations (mainframe systems)
      • Details of copy pair operation options (mainframe systems)
      • When performing operations on EXCTGs (mainframe systems)
    • About copy pair status
      • Copy pair status categories
      • Conditions for determining copy pair status
    • About copy pair states
      • Correspondence between copy pair states and the copy pair statuses in prerequisite products
    • Changing copy pair status
      • About changing copy pair status
      • Pair status transitions (when the target is a copy group)
      • Pair status transitions (when the target is a single or multiple copy pairs)
      • Supported operations for copy groups and copy pairs (mainframe systems)
      • About Change Pair Status Wizard
      • Change pair status workflow
      • Launching the Change Pair Status Wizard
      • Changing the copy pair status for each copy pair
      • Changing the copy pair status for each copy group, snapshot group, or container
      • Changing the copy pair status for multiple copy pairs (batch operation)
    • Confirming copy status during task execution
    • Advanced pair operations and recovery scenarios
      • Takeover operation
      • Swap operation
      • Force-split operation
      • Takeover-recovery operations (resync and recreate)
      • Advanced recovery use cases
      • Recovering a copy pair configuration definition file (takeback)
      • Alert settings and volume switching
    • Basic operations and corresponding RAID Manager commands
    • Conditions for copy pair operations (basic versus advanced)
    • Advanced operations and corresponding RAID Manager commands
  • Monitoring and managing storage systems using virtual command devices
    • About virtual command devices
    • Prerequisites for virtual command device configurations
    • Setting up an SVP as a virtual command device
    • Using a Virtual Command Device server
    • If a virtual command device fails to call the Device Manager Agent
    • RAID Manager response time and virtual command devices
    • Performing user authentication for replica operations
  • Monitoring and management of copy groups defined by device group
    • About copy groups defined by device group
    • Prerequisites for copy group configurations defined by device group
    • Precautions for replica operations (Application Agent)
    • Unsupported copy group configurations defined by device group
• 11 Refreshing management information
  • About refreshing management information
    • Functions for refreshing management information
    • Explorer menu items for refreshing management information
  • Refreshing copy pair status
    • About refreshing copy pair status
    • Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (open systems)
    • Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (mainframe systems)
    • Disabling the Device Manager refresh function
    • Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each host
    • Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each volume
    • Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each copy group or snapshot group
    • Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for My Copy Groups
    • Refreshing the copy pair status automatically for each information source
    • Refreshing copy pair status automatically for each pair management server
  • Refreshing configuration information
    • About refreshing configuration information
      • Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in open systems
      • Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in mainframe systems
    • Refreshing configuration information automatically (using the refresh settings)
    • Refreshing configuration information manually for each information source
    • Refreshing configuration information manually for each storage system
• 12 System monitoring
  • About system monitoring
  • Monitoring configuration information
    • About copy pair configuration checks
    • Checking copy pair configurations
      • Copy pair configuration check workflow
      • Checking copy pair configuration definitions
      • Checking copy pair configuration (perspective of specific volume)
      • Checking copy pair configuration (perspective of specific copy group)
    • Viewing copy pair configuration definition information
      • Viewing information about a configuration definition file (open systems)
      • Viewing prefix information (mainframe systems)
  • Monitoring pair status
    • Monitoring pair statuses using alerts
    • Monitoring pair statuses using My Copy Groups
      • Displaying My Copy Groups
      • Displaying My Copy Groups workflow
      • Icons representing the relationship between a volume and a copy group or snapshot group
    • Monitoring pair status using refresh settings
      • Checking the copy pair status
      • About copy pair status checks
      • Copy pair status check workflow
      • Checking status of copy pairs associated with volumes belonging to a host
      • Checking status of copy pairs for a volume in a storage system
      • Checking copy pair statuses for a copy group
  • Monitoring performance of remote copies
    • About performance monitoring
    • Checking the performance of remote copies
      • Checking performance workflow (remote copies)
    • Monitoring transfer delay state of remote copies
      • About copy progress
      • Viewing copy progress
      • Checking write delay time (C/T Delta) for each copy group
    • Monitoring resource utilization (pools and journal groups)
      • Pool usage threshold values
      • Checking buffer usage (pools and journal groups)
      • Checking buffer usage (sidefiles and journal volumes)
  • Monitoring license usage
    • Checking copy license usage
  • Monitoring application replicas
    • About data protection status
    • Data protection status example
    • About aggregation rules for protection status
    • Excluding objects from data protection status monitoring
• 13 Managing My Copy Groups
  • My Copy Groups management functions
  • Explorer menu items for My Copy Groups management
  • Checking My Copy Groups
  • Editing My Copy Groups
• 14 Managing resources
  • Resource management functions
  • Explorer menu items for resource management
  • Viewing a list of copy pair configurations
  • Viewing a list of copy pairs associated with a task
  • Viewing a list of hosts
  • Viewing a list of storage systems
  • Viewing a summary of storage systems
  • Viewing DEVN information (mainframe systems)
  • Viewing individual host information
  • Viewing individual storage system information
  • Viewing information about copy groups belonging to a copy pair configuration definition
  • Icons representing a copy topology
  • Viewing copy group information in the Pair Configurations view (mainframe systems)
  • Viewing copy group information in the Pair Configurations view (open systems)
  • Viewing information about copy groups or snapshot groups belonging to a host
  • Viewing copy group information in the Hosts view (mainframe systems)
  • Viewing copy group information in the Hosts view (open systems)
  • Viewing information about pair management servers
  • Viewing information about prefixes belonging to a host (mainframe systems)
  • Viewing information about volumes belonging to a host
  • Viewing information about volumes belonging to a storage system
  • Viewing information about CUs belonging to a storage system (mainframe systems)
  • Viewing LDEV information (mainframe systems)
    • LDEV display format
  • Viewing LUN information in the Storage Systems view (open systems)
  • Viewing LUN information in the Hosts view (open systems)
  • Viewing storage system information (mainframe systems)
  • Viewing storage system information (open systems)
  • Viewing information about LDKCs belonging to a storage system (mainframe systems)
• 15 Managing storage systems
  • Managing V-VOLs
    • Conditions for deleting V-VOLs
    • Deleting V-VOLs
    • Deleting multiple V-VOLs
  • Managing command devices
    • Editing command devices
    • Deleting command devices
  • Managing remote paths
    • Editing a remote path
    • About deleting remote paths
      • Deleting an associated copy pair
      • Conditions for deleting associated copy pairs
      • Deleting a remote path
  • Managing pool volumes
    • Editing pools
    • Deleting pools
  • Managing journal groups
    • Editing journal groups
    • Deleting journal groups
    • Expanding journal group capacity
    • Changing the maximum number of initial copy activities
• 16 Managing sites
  • About site administration
    • Site setup example
    • Site management functions
    • Explorer menu items for site administration
  • Viewing a list of sites
  • Viewing individual site information
  • Editing sites
  • Removing hosts from a site
  • Removing storage systems from a site
  • Removing pair management servers from a site
  • Removing applications from a site
  • Deleting sites
    • Deleting individual sites
    • Deleting multiple sites
• 17 Managing alerts
  • About alert management
    • Alert management functions
    • Explorer menu items for alert management
  • Enabling or disabling alert settings
  • Viewing alerts and settings
  • Testing alert settings
  • Editing alert settings
  • Marking alerts as completed
  • Deleting alert settings
  • Disabling or enabling alert automarking
• 18 Managing licenses
  • About licenses
    • Functions for license management
    • Explorer menu items for license management
  • Viewing license information
  • Editing a license
• 19 Managing users and permissions
  • User management functions
  • Explorer menu items for user management
  • Managing users
    • Viewing a list of users
    • Viewing individual user information
    • Changing user passwords (managing users and permissions)
    • Changing user roles
    • Editing user profiles (managing users and permissions)
    • Deleting users
      • Deleting individual users
      • Deleting multiple users
  • Managing user permissions
    • Viewing a list of user permissions
    • Viewing a summary of user permissions
  • Managing user profiles
    • About user profiles
      • User profile management functions
      • Explorer menu items for user profile management
    • Viewing user profiles
    • Editing user profiles (managing user profiles)
    • Changing user passwords (managing users and permissions)
  • Managing user accounts and user authentication
    • About account locking
    • Locking user accounts
    • Unlocking user accounts
    • About user authentication
    • Linking to an external authentication server
    • Changing the user authentication method
    • Using an external authorization server (authorization groups)
• 20 Managing resource groups
  • About resource group management
    • Resource group management functions
    • Explorer menu items for resource group management
  • Editing resource groups
  • Viewing a list of resource groups
  • Viewing individual resource group information
  • Removing hosts from a resource group
  • Removing storage systems from a resource group
  • Removing users from a resource group
  • Removing applications from a resource group
  • Deleting resource groups
    • Deleting individual resource groups
    • Deleting multiple resource groups
• 21 Managing security
  • About security settings
    • Functions for setting security
    • Explorer menu items for setting security
  • Viewing conditions for passwords
  • Changing conditions for passwords
  • Viewing settings for automatic account locking
  • Changing settings for automatic account locking
  • About warning banners
  • Viewing a preview of the warning banner
  • Editing a warning banner
  • Deleting a warning banner
• 22 Managing information sources
  • Viewing a list of information sources
  • Editing information sources
    • Editing a Device Manager server
    • Editing an instance of Application Agent
    • Editing an instance of HP StorageWorks P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software or XP7 mainframe agent
  • Removing information sources
    • Removing information sources workflow
    • Removing Device Manager servers
    • Removing instances of HP StorageWorks P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software or XP7 mainframe agent
    • Removing instances of Application Agent
  • Acquiring the latest configuration information (configuration refresh)
    • Updating registered information workflow
    • Example of updating information registered in Replication Manager
• 23 Managing application replicas
  • About application replicas
  • Managing generations (replica rotation)
  • About storage groups and information stores
  • Check replica configuration workflow
  • Precautions for replica operations
  • Replica data types and configuration requirements
  • Software that should not be used during replica operations
  • About creating application replicas
    • Create application replica workflow
  • About the Create Replica Wizard
  • Launching the Create Replica Wizard
  • Creating an application replica
  • Restoring application replicas
    • Roll-forward versus point-in-time restores
    • Restoring in units of information stores (Exchange 2007)
    • Restore application replica workflow
    • About the Restore Replica Wizard
    • Restoring the latest application replica (simple restore)
    • Restoring an application replica from the Replica History
    • Restoring an SQL Server replica to a remote site
      • Recovering a database from a remote site to local
      • Revealing secondary volumes prior to a remote restore operation
    • Using Database Availability Groups (DAGs)
    • About Database Availability Groups (DAGs)
    • About SQL database and service status
  • Using Agent backup scripts (tape backups)
  • Performing tape backups and restores
  • Replica operations in an SQL Server replication configuration
  • Mounting and unmounting application replicas
  • Checking the status of application replicas
    • Check status of a replica workflow
  • Confirming application resources
• 24 Handling errors
  • About handling errors
  • Monitoring events using event logs
    • About event logs
      • Event log management functions
      • Explorer menu (event logging)
    • Viewing a list of event log data
      • Icons for messages
  • Troubleshooting the replication environment
    • Troubleshooting the replication environment workflow
  • About MIB definition files
• 25 Exporting management information
  • About exporting management information
    • Management information export functions
    • Explorer menu (exporting management information)
  • Exporting alert history
  • Exporting event log data
  • Exporting the history of C/T delta
  • Exporting the history of journal volume usage for each copy group
  • Exporting the history of journal volume usage for each journal group
  • Exporting the history of pool volume usage
  • Exporting the history of sidefile usage
• 26 System maintenance
  • About system maintenance
    • Functions for Replication Manager maintenance
    • Explorer menu items for Replication Manager maintenance
  • About operation modes
  • Viewing the operation mode
  • Changing the operation mode
• 27 Replication Manager CLI tools
  • About the installation base path
  • Using the GetCTDelta command
    • Requirements
    • Location
    • Syntax
    • Examples
  • Using the task commands
    • Requirements
      • Property settings
    • Location
    • Common options
      • Getting information about tasks (GetTasks)
      • Executing a task (ExecuteTask)
    • Managing tasks with scripts
      • Example task CLI procedure
      • Sample Windows script
      • Adjusting the interval for confirming status
• 28 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • HP technical support
    • Subscription service
    • Documentation feedback
  • Related information
  • Conventions
• A Icons
  • Icons for executing operations
  • Icons for executing screen operations
  • Icons representing copy pair statuses
  • Icons representing the management target
• B Exceptions
  • Cautionary notes for the GUI display
    • Window display in Firefox
    • Restrictions related to the GUI
    • When the copy pair configuration does not match definition information
      • Configuration in which copy groups containing copy pairs in simplex status and a configuration definition file exist (open systems)
      • Example configuration in which two copy group definition files are used for the same copy group (for mainframe systems)
    • When the copy pair configuration is complex
      • Example of complex cascade configuration 1
      • Example of complex cascade configuration 2
    • When the displayed information depends on the system configuration
      • Example configuration in which data is remotely copied between multiple sites (for open systems)
  • When multiple Replication Manager servers manage the same information source
  • When Replication Manager handles multiple prefixes (mainframe systems)
• C Display formats
  • Display formats used when no pertinent information is available
  • Display format of multi-valued information items for a management target
  • Display format of copy type
  • About volume attributes
• Glossary
• Index