HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.4.0-00 Configuration Guide (TB584-96058, December 2012)

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 ................................................................................... 20
P9000 mainframe agent versus BCM Agent .................................................................... 24
Prerequisites for managing copy pairs on mainframe systems using P9000 RAID Manager .......... 25
Mainframe pairs and Device Manager Agent ........................................................................ 25
Configurations for mainframe monitoring ............................................................................... 25
Configurations for replica management ................................................................................. 25
Replication Manager in standby configuration ....................................................................... 28
System requirements .................................................................................................................. 29
System requirements for the management server ..................................................................... 29
Operating systems ....................................................................................................... 29
Server specifications ..................................................................................................... 33
Virtual memory requirements ......................................................................................... 34
Disk space for Replication Monitor log files (5.x upgrade only) .......................................... 35
Resource Limits ............................................................................................................ 35
Maximum number of copy pairs .................................................................................... 36
Maximum number of LDEVs .......................................................................................... 36
Log data and number of copy pairs ............................................................................... 37
System requirements for the management client ...................................................................... 37
Required memory for management clients ....................................................................... 39
System requirements for hosts and pair management servers ................................................... 39
Requirements for open systems ....................................................................................... 40
P9000 RAID Manager version requirement ..................................................................... 40
P9000 RAID Manager version and consistency group support ........................................... 40
Functional limitations when software versions do not match ............................................... 40
Requirements for mainframe systems ............................................................................... 41
Supported storage systems ............................................................................................ 42
Firewall exceptions .................................................................................................................... 42
How Replication Manager collects data ....................................................................................... 44
Data collection in open systems ............................................................................................ 44
Data collection in mainframe systems .................................................................................... 46
2 Setting up Replication Manager ......................................................... 49
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 49
Setting up the prerequisite environment ........................................................................................ 49
Open systems environment .................................................................................................. 50
Mainframe systems environment ........................................................................................... 52
Application replica environment ........................................................................................... 54
Adding a link menu to the GUI display ....................................................................................... 54
hcmdslink command options ................................................................................................ 54
Configuration Guide 3