HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.2 Configuration Guide

Contents
Preface .............................................................................................. 11
1 Replication Manager system configurations and requirements ................ 13
Replication Manager system configurations .................................................................................. 13
Configurations for open systems ........................................................................................... 13
Configurations for mainframe systems ................................................................................... 19
P9000 mainframe agent versus BCM Agent .................................................................... 23
Configurations for mainframe monitoring ............................................................................... 23
Configurations for replica management ................................................................................. 24
Replication Manager in standby configuration ....................................................................... 26
System requirements .................................................................................................................. 27
System requirements for the management server ..................................................................... 27
Operating systems ....................................................................................................... 27
Server specifications ..................................................................................................... 30
Disk space requirements ............................................................................................... 30
Virtual memory requirements ......................................................................................... 31
Management server perm heap sizes and virtual memory ................................................. 31
Disk space for Replication Monitor log files (5.x upgrade only) .......................................... 32
Resource Limits ............................................................................................................ 32
Maximum number of copy pairs .................................................................................... 32
Maximum number of LDEVs .......................................................................................... 33
Heap size in a mixed environment ................................................................................. 33
Number of copy pairs on open systems .......................................................................... 34
Log data and number of copy pairs ............................................................................... 34
System requirements for the management client ...................................................................... 34
Required memory for management clients ....................................................................... 35
System requirements for hosts and pair management servers ................................................... 35
Requirements for open systems ....................................................................................... 36
P9000 RAID Manager version requirement ..................................................................... 36
P9000 RAID Manager version and consistency group support ........................................... 36
Requirements for operating Replication Manager at multiple sites ....................................... 36
Functional limitations when software versions do not match ............................................... 37
Requirements for mainframe systems ............................................................................... 37
Supported storage systems .................................................................................................. 38
How Replication Manager collects data ....................................................................................... 38
Data collection in open systems ............................................................................................ 38
Data collection in mainframe systems .................................................................................... 40
2 Setting up Replication Manager ......................................................... 43
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 43
Configuring the Replication Manager infrastructure ....................................................................... 43
Open systems environment .................................................................................................. 44
Mainframe systems environment ........................................................................................... 46
Application replica environment ........................................................................................... 47
Configuration Guide 3