HP P9000 RAID Manager User Guide

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................8
About RAID Manager...............................................................................................................8
RAID Manager functions available on the P9500 storage system....................................................8
Provisioning function.............................................................................................................9
Asynchronous command processing.......................................................................................9
Command execution modes................................................................................................10
Precheck function...............................................................................................................10
Command execution by the out-of-band method.....................................................................11
User authentication............................................................................................................12
LDEV nickname function......................................................................................................12
LDEV grouping function......................................................................................................13
Resource group function......................................................................................................13
Resource group locking function...........................................................................................13
RAID Manager functions available on all RAID storage systems....................................................14
In-system replication...........................................................................................................14
Remote replication.............................................................................................................14
Data protection..................................................................................................................14
2 RAID Manager software environment..........................................................15
Overview of the RAID Manager software environment.................................................................15
RAID Manager components on the RAID storage system..............................................................15
Command device...............................................................................................................15
Command device guarding............................................................................................16
Alternate command device function.................................................................................17
Define the remote command device.................................................................................18
RAID Manager and the SCSI command interface...................................................................18
Command competition...................................................................................................19
Command flow.............................................................................................................19
Issuing commands for LDEVs within a LUSE device.............................................................20
RAID Manager instance components on the host server...............................................................20
HORCM operational environment........................................................................................20
RAID Manager instance configurations.................................................................................21
Host machines that can be paired........................................................................................23
Configuration definition file.................................................................................................24
Overview.....................................................................................................................24
Configuration definition file settings.................................................................................26
Configuration definition for cascading volume pairs...............................................................33
Configuration file and mirror descriptors...........................................................................33
Cascading connection and configuration files...................................................................34
Business Copy..............................................................................................................35
Cascading connections for Continuous Access Synchronous and Business Copy....................36
RAID Manager software files....................................................................................................39
RAID Manager files supplied with the software......................................................................39
RAID Manager files for UNIX-based systems.....................................................................39
RAID Manager files for Windows-based systems...............................................................40
RAID Manager files for OpenVMS-based systems..............................................................41
RAID Manager log and trace files.............................................................................................42
RAID Manager log files......................................................................................................42
RAID Manager trace files....................................................................................................44
RAID Manager trace control command.................................................................................44
Command error logging for audit........................................................................................45
User-created files....................................................................................................................46
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