HP StorageWorks Application Recovery Manager Installation and Licensing Guide (T4395-96002, February 2008)

Overview of the Installation Procedure

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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 configuration of the cell.

The Installation Server (IS) is a computer or the Cell Manager

component that contains Application Recovery Manager software

repository used for remote client installations. This feature of

Application Recovery Manager greatly eases the software installation

process, particularly for remote clients.

A cell consists of one Cell Manager and usually several clients. A

computer system becomes an Application Recovery Manager client as

soon as you install one of the Application Recovery Manager software

components on it. The client components installed on a system depend on

the role of that system in your backup environment. The Application

Recovery Manager components can be installed either locally on a single

system, or distributed among many systems from Installation Servers.

The User Interface component is needed to access the Application

Recovery Manager functionality and is used to perform all configuration

and administration tasks. It must be installed on systems used for

backup administration. Application Recovery Manager provides a

graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line interface (CLI).

Client systems (application and backup systems) that are connected to

disk arrays must have the Application Recovery Manager ZDB Agent

and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Integration components installed.

The ZDB Agent enables you to back up data from the application

system to disk arrays or restore it. The backup system is typically

connected to a disk array and to one or multiple application systems.