HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA Administrator Guide (T3687-96043, December 2005)

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Contents

Aboutthisguide .......................... 9

Intendedaudience...................................... 9

Prerequisites ........................................ 9

Relateddocumentation.................................... 9

Documentconventionsandsymbols ............................. 10

HPtechnicalsupport.................................... 10

Subscriptionservice .................................... 11

HPwebsites ....................................... 11

Providing feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1AboutHPStorageWorksContinuousAccessEVA........... 13

Features ......................................... 13

Remotereplicationconcepts................................. 13

Replicationmodes................................... 13

Bidirectionalreplication................................. 14

DRgroups ...................................... 14

DRgrouplog..................................... 15

DRgrouplogstates ................................ 16

DRgrouplogsize ................................. 16

Fullcopy..................................... 16

Managedsets..................................... 16

Failover ....................................... 16

Failsafemode..................................... 18

Interfaceoptions...................................... 19

HPCommandViewEVAtasks.............................. 19

HPReplicationSolutionsManagertasks.......................... 20

2Remotereplicationsetup ..................... 21

VerifyEVAsetup...................................... 21

Installationchecklist .................................. 21

Supportedcabling................................... 21

Installreplicationlicenses.................................. 23

Installoptionalreplicationmanager ............................. 23

Installinterswitchlinks ................................... 23

Createzones ....................................... 24

Conﬁgurehosts ...................................... 26

Initializethearraysandcreatediskgroups .......................... 26

Determining the numb er of disk groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Specifyingdiskgroupproperties............................. 26

Addhosts ........................................ 27

Createandpresentsourcevirtualdisks ............................ 27

Selectingapreferredpath ............................... 27

Presentingvirtualdisks ................................. 27

CreateDRgroups ..................................... 27

Specifyingvirtualdisks................................. 28

SpecifyingDRgrouploglocationandsize......................... 28

Selectingreplicationmode ............................... 28

Presentdestinationvirtualdisks ............................... 28

Back up the conﬁguration.................................. 28

Setupremoteandstandbymanagementservers........................ 29

HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA administrator guide