HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.4.1-00 Configuration Guide (TB584-96064, March 2013)

Contents
Preface .............................................................................................. 11
1 Replication Manager system configurations and requirements ................ 13
Replication Manager system configurations .................................................................................. 13
Configurations for open systems ........................................................................................... 13
Configurations for mainframe systems ................................................................................... 20
P9000 mainframe agent versus BCM Agent .................................................................... 24
Prerequisites for managing copy pairs on mainframe systems using P9000 RAID Manager .......... 25
Prerequisites for the data migration function that uses virtual ID ................................................ 25
Mainframe pairs and Device Manager Agent ........................................................................ 25
Configurations for mainframe monitoring ............................................................................... 26
Configurations for replica management ................................................................................. 26
Replication Manager in standby configuration ....................................................................... 29
System requirements .................................................................................................................. 30
System requirements for the management server ..................................................................... 30
Operating systems ....................................................................................................... 30
Server specifications ..................................................................................................... 34
Virtual memory requirements ......................................................................................... 35
Disk space for Replication Monitor log files (5.x upgrade only) .......................................... 36
Resource Limits ............................................................................................................ 36
Maximum number of copy pairs .................................................................................... 37
Maximum number of LDEVs .......................................................................................... 37
Log data and number of copy pairs ............................................................................... 38
System requirements for the management client ...................................................................... 38
Required memory for management clients ....................................................................... 40
System requirements for hosts and pair management servers ................................................... 41
Requirements for open systems ....................................................................................... 41
P9000 RAID Manager version requirement ..................................................................... 41
P9000 RAID Manager version and consistency group support ........................................... 41
Functional limitations when software versions do not match ............................................... 41
Requirements for mainframe systems ............................................................................... 42
Supported storage systems ............................................................................................ 43
Firewall exceptions .................................................................................................................... 43
How Replication Manager collects data ....................................................................................... 45
Data collection in open systems ............................................................................................ 45
Data collection in mainframe systems .................................................................................... 47
2 Setting up Replication Manager ......................................................... 49
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 49
Setting up the prerequisite environment ........................................................................................ 49
Open systems environment .................................................................................................. 50
Mainframe systems environment ........................................................................................... 52
Application replica environment ........................................................................................... 54
Adding a link menu to the GUI display ....................................................................................... 54
Configuration Guide 3