HP Application Recovery Manager software Integration guide (March 2008)

Copy of replica data with the source volume not retained

With this method, the source volume is directly overwritten by the replica. The old

source volume is not retained and if the restore session fails, the original application

data residing on the source volumes is lost.

You can select to retain the replica and thus enable to perform another restore from

this backup.

Advantages

• Disk group of the source volume is not changed after instant recovery.

• Physical location of the application production data remains the same.

• Another restore from the same backup is possible.

Disadvantages

• Restore is not as fast as with the "switch of disks" method.

• The "old" source volume is lost during restore.

To perform this type of restore, select the Copy replica data to the source location

option and clear the Retain source for forensics option in the Application Recovery

Manager GUI.

HP StorageWorks EVA considerations

• After instant recovery, the replica used in the session can become the source

volumes (physical location of the original application data changes). This depends

on the restore options you select in the GUI.

Additionally, if a replica resides in another disk group than the source volumes,

this replica disk group becomes the disk group of the source volumes.

• Depending on the restore options you select in the GUI, the restored replica can

be deleted from the replica set after instant recovery. In this case, you cannot run

instant recovery using the same session ID again.

• If you restore using HP StorageWorks EVA, before instant recovery, it is

recommended to check if the SMI-S CIMOMs were configured properly in the

Application Recovery Manager cell by running the omnidbsmis -ompasswd

-check [HostName] command.

This command performs a health check of you environment, which may help

identify such potential problems as wrong user name or password provided, a

broken network connection, a DNS resolution problem, and so on.

Integrating the Application Recovery Manager ZDB integrations and Microsoft Volume

Shadow Copy Service