HP XP7 Replication Manager Configuration Guide (TK981-96012, May 2014)

Mainframe systems environment ........................................................................................... 53
Application replica environment ........................................................................................... 54
Adding a link menu to the GUI display ....................................................................................... 55
hcmds64link command options ............................................................................................ 55
Creating a user-defined application file ................................................................................. 55
3 Setting up Application Agent ............................................................. 57
About Application Agent ........................................................................................................... 57
Application Agent functions ................................................................................................. 57
System requirements and supported environments ......................................................................... 58
Application Agent system requirements .................................................................................. 58
Host OS and database server requirements ..................................................................... 59
Database and backup server requirements ...................................................................... 62
Additional server requirements ...................................................................................... 67
VSS Provider requirements ............................................................................................. 70
Storage systems requirements ........................................................................................ 71
Cluster support ................................................................................................................... 72
Cluster considerations .................................................................................................. 73
Virtual environments supported by Application Agent .................................................................... 73
VMware ESX/ESXi Server .................................................................................................... 74
Windows Server Hyper-V .................................................................................................... 75
Hyper-V Live Migration ........................................................................................................ 76
Virtual memory required for Application Agent on a virtual machine of Windows Server Hyper-V
........................................................................................................................................ 77
Application Agent installation location ......................................................................................... 77
Application Agent installation path restrictions ........................................................................ 77
If you plan to install Application Agent on the management server ............................................ 77
Installing Application Agent ....................................................................................................... 78
Adding Application Agent to the Windows Firewall Exception list ................................................... 80
Application Agent and RAID Manager ........................................................................................ 80
Command line interface for RAID Manager ........................................................................... 80
Protection function of RAID Manager .................................................................................... 81
Using RAID Manager to configure pair volumes ..................................................................... 81
Device Manager and RAID Manager .................................................................................... 81
Starting and stopping RAID Manager ................................................................................... 81
Settings for Application Agent in a cluster configuration (MSCS) ..................................................... 81
Application Agent and Replication Manager log output ................................................................. 83
Changing Application Agent port numbers .................................................................................. 83
Starting and stopping the Application Agent Services .................................................................... 84
Copy Controller service ....................................................................................................... 84
Common Agent service ....................................................................................................... 84
Setting error logging options for Application Agent ....................................................................... 85
4 Operating the management server ..................................................... 87
About executing commands on the management server ................................................................. 87
User permissions ................................................................................................................ 87
Setting up the PATH environment variable in Linux ................................................................... 87
Starting and stopping Replication Manager ................................................................................. 87
Starting Replication Manager .............................................................................................. 88
Stopping Replication Manager ............................................................................................ 88
Checking the operation status of Replication Manager ........................................................... 89
Changing settings in the properties files ....................................................................................... 90
Properties related to Replication Manager ............................................................................. 90
logger.properties ................................................................................................................ 93
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