HP EVA Storage Replication Adapter Software for VMware vCenter SRM Administrator Guide

Contents
1 Overview of HP P6000 EVA SRA Software version 5.0 ........................... 7
Discovery of disk arrays and LUNs ................................................................................................ 7
Disk array discovery sequence ............................................................................................... 8
LUN discovery sequence ....................................................................................................... 8
Failover testing ........................................................................................................................... 9
Failover recovery ...................................................................................................................... 10
Communication path ................................................................................................................. 10
Replication options ................................................................................................................... 11
2 Configuring SRM, HP P6000/EVA, and HP P6000 EVA SRA Software
version 5.0 ......................................................................................... 13
Setting up the SAN environment ................................................................................................. 13
Adding an ESX server ......................................................................................................... 14
Installing licenses ............................................................................................................... 14
Creating vdisks for datastores .............................................................................................. 15
Presenting LUNs ................................................................................................................. 15
Creating and configuring datastores ..................................................................................... 15
Configuring array managers with HP Storage Administration Portal ................................................. 16
Pairing SRM sites ...................................................................................................................... 21
Configuring SRM to communicate with HP P6000 EVA Storage ...................................................... 21
Create protection groups .......................................................................................................... 25
Create recovery plans ............................................................................................................... 25
3 Installing and removing HP P6000 EVA SRA Software version 5.0 .......... 27
Installation directory .................................................................................................................. 27
Installation prerequisites ............................................................................................................. 27
Installing HP P6000 EVA SRA Software version 5.0 ....................................................................... 27
Verifying the installation ............................................................................................................. 29
Removing HP P6000 EVA SRA Software version 5.0 ..................................................................... 29
4 Recovery and failback ...................................................................... 31
Failback .................................................................................................................................. 31
5 Troubleshooting HP P6000 EVA SRA Software version 5.0 .................... 33
HP P6000 EVA SRA Software version 5.0 does not install .............................................................. 33
Virtual machines do not start at recovery site after failover ............................................................. 33
Site Recovery Manager timeout failure in large array configurations ................................................ 33
Virtual machines do not start at recovery site during the test failover test ........................................... 33
SRM environment is healthy, yet HP P6000 SRA Software version 5.0 is not operating as expected ..... 34
Array management changes not reflected in SRA .......................................................................... 34
CV credential changes .............................................................................................................. 34
Forgotten credentials ................................................................................................................. 34
Increase timeout value after array configuration ............................................................................ 34
HP P6000 EVA Storage Replication Adapter Software for VMware vCenter SRM version 5.0 3