HP Insight Recovery 1.0 Release Notes

This document provides information about HP Insight Recovery 1.0.
HP Insight Recovery Acronyms and Terminology
This section explains acronyms and terminology used in this document.
• DR Group (Disaster Recovery Group) - The Continuous Access EVA term for a Storage
Replication Group
• DR Protected (Disaster Recovery Protected) - Logical servers that are managed by HP Insight
Recovery are referred to as “DR Protected” logical servers
• CMS - HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) Central Management Server
• ICS - HP Insight Control suite
• HP IR - HP Insight Recovery
• ID-VSE - HP Insight Dynamics Virtual Server Environment
• Job - An automated, multi-step process associated with HP IR site role reversal (either
changing a Recovery Site to a Primary Site, or changing a Primary Site to a Recovery Site)
• logical server - A management abstraction introduced by ID-VSE that simplifies and
optimizes the provisioning, management, and movement of servers (a logical server can be
a VC-based server or a VM-based server)
• Maintenance Mode - A Recovery Group at the Recovery Site can be placed in Maintenance
Mode for testing purposes to confirm if failover will succeed
• Primary Site - The site where all logical servers being managed by HP IR are activated
• Recovery Group - A pairing of a single logical server and a single Storage Replication Group
• recovery logical server - A logical server at the Recovery Site, which is included in a Recovery
Group and is associated with a logical server at the Primary Site included in the same
Recovery Group - normally it is deactivated and disabled - it is enabled and activated on
site failover
• Recovery Site - The site all Recovery Groups are failed over to as a result of invoking the
"Convert Local Server to Primary" command
• SIM - HP Systems Insight Manager
• Storage Replication Group - A set of LUNs across which storage replication preserves
write-order at the replication target storage array - in Continuous Access EVA terminology
this is known as a DR Group
• VC-based logical server - the server software image (OS and applications) running on a
VCEM managed physical server
• VM-based logical server - a logical server that is a VMware virtual machine (ESX guest)
• VCEM - Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
HP Insight Recovery Product Overview
HP Insight Recovery provides disaster recovery protection for logical servers configured and
managed by Insight Dynamics-VSE (ID-VSE). Logical servers that are managed by HP Insight
Recovery are referred to as Disaster Recovery Protected (DR Protected) logical servers. Each DR
Protected logical server is configured to run on an HP ProLiant Server; either a c-Class Blade
equipped with HP Virtual Connect, or on a virtual machine under the control of a VMware ESX
Server.
An HP Insight Recovery configuration consists of two sites, each running ID-VSE and HP Insight
Recovery. At any point in time, one site is configured with the Primary Site role and the other is
configured with the Recovery Site role. HP Insight Recovery pairs symmetrically configured
logical servers across the two sites. The DR Protected logical servers at the Primary Site are in
an activated state, providing services to the end-user. The peer logical servers at the Recovery
Site are in a deactivated state. At the Primary Site, the boot images of the DR Protected logical
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