HP XP7 Replication Manager Configuration Guide (TK981-96012, May 2014)

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
XP7 mainframe agent versus BCM Agent ........................................................................ 24
Prerequisites for managing copy pairs on mainframe systems using RAID Manager .................... 24
Prerequisites for data migration using virtual IDs (HP P9500) .................................................... 25
Prerequisites for data migration using virtual IDs (HP XP7) ........................................................ 25
Prerequisites for managing copy pairs using snapshot groups .................................................. 26
Mainframe pairs and Device Manager Agent ........................................................................ 26
Configurations for mainframe monitoring ............................................................................... 26
Configurations for replica management ................................................................................. 27
Replication Manager in standby configuration ....................................................................... 29
System requirements .................................................................................................................. 30
System requirements for the management server ..................................................................... 30
Operating systems ....................................................................................................... 30
Server specifications ..................................................................................................... 33
Virtual memory requirements ......................................................................................... 33
Resource Limits ............................................................................................................ 34
Maximum number of copy pairs .................................................................................... 35
Maximum number of LDEVs .......................................................................................... 36
Log data and number of copy pairs ............................................................................... 37
System requirements for the management client ...................................................................... 37
Required memory for management clients ....................................................................... 38
System requirements for hosts and pair management servers ................................................... 39
Requirements for open systems ....................................................................................... 39
RAID Manager version requirement ................................................................................ 39
RAID Manager version and consistency group support ..................................................... 39
Functional limitations when software versions do not match ............................................... 39
Requirements for mainframe systems ............................................................................... 40
Supported storage systems ............................................................................................ 41
Firewall exceptions .................................................................................................................... 41
How Replication Manager collects data ....................................................................................... 43
Data collection in open systems ............................................................................................ 43
Data collection in mainframe systems .................................................................................... 45
2 Setting up Replication Manager ......................................................... 49
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 49
Concerning upgrade installations ................................................................................................ 49
Items to be checked after upgrading Replication Manager ....................................................... 49
Setting up the prerequisite environment ........................................................................................ 50
Open systems environment .................................................................................................. 51
Configuration Guide 3