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

Index
A
AIX
procedure to resume I/O, 119
application
and bandwidth, 20
and disk groups, 35
and DR groups, 24
determining peak load, 18
failover, 26
recovery, 15
asynchronous mode
description, 21
asynchronous write mode
description, 8
specifying, 99
B
B-series switch configuration, 52
backup
configuration, 100
manual, 126
procedure, 126
using HP P6000 Replication Solutions Manager, 126
using HP Storage System Scripting Utility, 126
bandwidth
and performance, 18
and RPO, 18
evaluating, 20
in bidirectional replication, 46
reducing cost, 17
bandwidth capacity, 18
best practices
before making a normalization, 124
support procedures, 124
throttling merge I/O, 124
bidirectional replication, 46
boot from SAN, 50
bootless DR group failover (Linux), 122
C
C-series switch configuration, 52
cabling arrays
verifying, 54
cascaded replication, 49
concepts
remote replication, 8
configuration
backing up, 100, 126
backing up manually, 126
backing up with HP Storage System Scripting Utility,
126
basic, 23
bidirectional replication, 46
cascaded replication, 49
fan-in replication, 48
five-fabric, 29
for application failover, 26
limits, 23
low availability, 27
rules, 24, 25
single HBA, 29
single-fabric, 27
single-switch, 28
six-fabric, 32
system fan-out replication, 47
with HP Cluster Extension , 26
with HP Continentalcluster, 27
with HP Metrocluster Continuous Access, 27
with ServiceGuard, 27
controller software
configuration rules, 24
upgrading, 127
cost
and distance, 17
creating
destination snapclone before normalization, 124
DR groups, 98
virtual disks, 96
D
data replication, 8
Data Replication Designer
and latency, 17, 20
data replication group see DR group
data replication protocol, 38
DC-Management, 58
default disk group, 96
destination loss
recovery, 115
destination virtual disk, 8
disaster planning, 103
disaster tolerance
definition, 15
threat radius, 15
disk group
creating, 96
failure, 113
failure on destination array, 115
failure on source array, 114
occupancy alarm, setting, 35
protection level, 35
disk groups
for bidirectional replication, 46
planning, 35
write history log, 42
disk protection level
selecting, 35
distance
and cost, 17
and link technologies, 17
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