HP StorageWorks P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.1 Configuration Guide (TB584-96022, May 2011)

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 ................................................................................... 18
P9000 mainframe agent versus BCM Agent .................................................................... 22
Configurations for mainframe monitoring ............................................................................... 22
Configurations for replica management ................................................................................. 23
Replication Manager in standby configuration ....................................................................... 25
System requirements .................................................................................................................. 26
System requirements for the management server ..................................................................... 26
Operating system for a management server ..................................................................... 26
Server specifications ..................................................................................................... 28
Disk space required for Replication Manager .................................................................. 29
Virtual memory requirements for Replication Manager ...................................................... 29
Management server perm heap sizes and virtual memory ................................................. 30
Disk space for Replication Monitor log files (5.x upgrade only) .......................................... 30
Maximum number of resources supported ....................................................................... 31
Maximum number of copy pairs .................................................................................... 31
Maximum number of LDEVs .......................................................................................... 31
Heap size in a mixed environment ................................................................................. 32
Number of copy pairs on open systems .......................................................................... 32
Log data and number of copy pairs ............................................................................... 33
System requirements for the management client ...................................................................... 33
Required memory for management clients ....................................................................... 34
System requirements for hosts and pair management servers ................................................... 34
Requirements for open systems ....................................................................................... 34
RAID Manager version requirement ................................................................................ 34
RAID Manager version and consistency group support ..................................................... 34
Requirements for operating Replication Manager at multiple sites ....................................... 35
Functional limitations when software versions do not match ............................................... 35
Requirements for mainframe systems ............................................................................... 35
Supported storage systems .................................................................................................. 36
How Replication Manager collects data ....................................................................................... 36
Data collection in open systems ............................................................................................ 36
Data collection in mainframe systems .................................................................................... 38
2 Setting up Replication Manager ......................................................... 41
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 41
Configuring the Replication Manager infrastructure ....................................................................... 41
Open systems environment .................................................................................................. 42
Mainframe systems environment ........................................................................................... 44
Application replica environment .................................................................................................. 45
Configuration Guide 3