HP Insight Recovery Technical White Paper

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Abstract
This white paper provides a technical overview of
the
Insight Recovery
1.0 product.
Insight Recovery
extends the capabilities of HP Insight Dynamics
–
VSE
, providing
d
isaster
r
ecovery
(DR)
protection for
l
ogical
s
erver
environments.
Insi
ght Recovery
extends HP’s set of solution offerings
that protect
customer’s applications in the event of a disaster.
Insight Recovery
focuses specifically on ProLiant
solutions involving both physical and virtual solution environments, utilizing
l
ogical
s
ervers
and HP
StorageWorks
Continuous Access
EVA data replication technologies.
Protecting
l
ogical
servers
and their associated workloads from the impact of a site
-
wide disaster
,
or
major service interruption
,
is an important requirement for enterpris
es
t
o ensure business continuity.
Increasingly, customers are adopting
DR
solutions that complement the virtualization technologies
in
their IT infrastructure.
Insight Recovery
builds on the common management capabilities of
HP Insight
Dynamics
–
VSE
for virtu
al and physical server environments,
enabling
customer
s
to recover from
a
disaster with
an automated “push
-
button” disaster failover solution.
Introduction
IT A
dministrators using
HP Insight Dynamics
–
VSE
software are familiar with the benefits of the
l
o
gical
server
concept, which unifie
s the tasks associated with
physical and virtual servers through a
common set of ma
nagement interfaces
.
Building o
n the flexibility and power of
logical servers
, HP
introduces
In
sight Recovery
.
Insight Recovery
provides a
n easy
-
to
-
use
DR
solution that protects
application workloads running on either physical or virtual servers.
To
recover
from
a major site
-
wide disaster that disables an entire dat
a center
,
such as a hurricane,
flood
,
or
a prolonged
outage in
the data ce
nter
–
Insight Recovery
automate
s
the
failover of
a set
of
application
workloads to a remote
r
ecovery
s
ite
.
By design, the decision to perform a
DR
failover to a
r
ecovery
s
ite
is a manual decision, which
may require the approval of
a Chief
Information Of
fi
cer
(CIO) or other “C
-
level
”
executive
.
O
nce the
determination
has been made that a disaster
has
occurred or is imminent
at the
p
rimary
s
ite
,
an administrator
at the
r
ecovery
s
ite
can
initiate
a
DR
failover using
Insight Recovery
.
Overview of
Insight D
ynamics
–
VSE and
Logical S
erver
s
HP Insight Dynamics
–
VSE
introduced the
logical server
concept,
an
abstraction that
simplifies and
unifies
the provisioning and
ongoing management
of servers.
This concept
provides a single
management paradigm for
physica
l
server blades and virtual machines
, allowing administrators to
provision
and control dispar
ate resources
with the same
management
tools.
The
logical server
concept is illustrated in Figure 1.