HP P6000 Continuous Access Implementation Guide (T3680-96431, August 2012)

H-series switch configuration...........................................................................................54
M-series switch configuration..........................................................................................54
Verifying cabling...............................................................................................................54
Changing host port data replication settings..........................................................................56
Verifying path status......................................................................................................57
Installing replication licenses....................................................................................................58
Installing HP P6000 Replication Solutions Manager (optional)......................................................58
DC-Management and HP P6000 Continuous Access..............................................................58
Creating fabrics and zones......................................................................................................58
Fabric configuration drawings..............................................................................................58
Two-fabric configuration.................................................................................................59
HP P6000 Command View management connections in five-fabric and six-fabric
configurations...............................................................................................................61
A single physical fabric..................................................................................................66
Dual physical fabric with six zones..................................................................................67
Best practices for using zones with HP P6000 Continuous Access.............................................69
Zoning management servers...........................................................................................70
Zoning best practices for traffic and fault isolation..................................................................70
Recommended single-fabric zoning configurations..................................................................71
Recommended dual-fabric zoning configurations....................................................................80
FCIP gateway zoning configurations.....................................................................................95
Configuring hosts....................................................................................................................96
Configuring disk groups for remote replication............................................................................96
Creating and presenting source virtual disks...............................................................................96
Selecting a preferred controller ...........................................................................................97
Using the failover/failback setting........................................................................................97
Using the failover only setting..............................................................................................98
Presenting virtual disks........................................................................................................98
Adding hosts .........................................................................................................................98
Creating DR groups................................................................................................................98
Specifying virtual disks.......................................................................................................98
Adding members to a DR group..........................................................................................99
Selecting replication mode..................................................................................................99
Specifying DR group write history log location and size .........................................................99
Presenting destination virtual disks..........................................................................................100
Backing up the configuration..................................................................................................100
Setting up remote and standby management servers.................................................................100
Testing failover.....................................................................................................................100
7 Failover and recovery.............................................................................101
Failover example..................................................................................................................101
Planning for a disaster...........................................................................................................103
Failover and recovery procedures...........................................................................................103
Performing failover and recovery........................................................................................104
Choosing a failover procedure..........................................................................................104
Planned failover...............................................................................................................105
Planned Failover Procedure..........................................................................................107
Unplanned failover..........................................................................................................108
Recover from failsafe-locked after destination loss.................................................................108
Failback to the original source following a planned or unplanned failover...............................110
Return operations to new hardware....................................................................................110
Recovering from a disk group hardware failure....................................................................113
Failed disk group hardware indicators...........................................................................113
Disk group hardware failure on the source array ............................................................114
Disk group hardware failure on the destination array.......................................................115
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