HP Application Recovery Manager software A.06.10 Installation and licensing guide (March 2008)

1 Overview of the installation
procedure
In this chapter
This chapter provides an overview of the Application Recovery Manager installation
procedure and introduces concepts that apply to the installation. The chapter also
introduces Application Recovery Manager Cell Manager and Application Recovery
Manager.
Overview of the installation procedure
An Application Recovery Manager backup environment is a set of systems with a
common backup policy located in the same time zone and existing on the same
LAN/SAN. This network environment is referred to as an Application Recovery
Manager cell. A typical cell consists of a Cell Manager, Installation Servers, and
clients.
The Cell Manager is the main system that manages the cell from a central point. It
contains the Application Recovery Manager internal database (IDB) and runs core
Application Recovery Manager software and session managers.
The IDB keeps track of created replicas and the cell configuration.
The Installation Server (IS) is a separate system or a Cell Manager component that
contains the Application Recovery Manager software repository used for remote
client installations. This Application Recovery Manager feature greatly facilitates the
software installation process, particularly for remote clients.
A cell typically consists of one Cell Manager and several clients. A computer system
becomes an Application Recovery Manager client as soon as one of the Application
Recovery Manager software components is installed on the system. When client
components are installed on a system depends on the role of that system in your
backup environment. Application Recovery Manager components can be installed
either locally on a single system, or onto several systems from Installation Servers.
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