HP P9000 Business Continuity Manager User Guide

1 Overview of HP P9000 for Business Continuity Manager
Software
This chapter describes the reasons for using Business Continuity Manager, as well as its features.
It also explains example system features. It describes Business Continuity Manager system
configurations, defines the terms used throughout this manual, and describes how Business Continuity
Manager identifies and interacts with storage systems on different storage system models.
• “Why use Business Continuity Manager?” (page 16)
• “Communication with HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software” (page 17)
• “Products that can be controlled by Business Continuity Manager” (page 18)
• “Remote volume operations” (page 21)
• “Grouping to simplify volume operations” (page 22)
• “Data Center Configurations” (page 27)
• “Functions Supporting the Automatic Operation (BCM Monitor)” (page 32)
• “Functionalities Dependent on the Storage System” (page 35)
• “Storage System Identification ” (page 38)
• “Preparing to set up Business Continuity Manager” (page 39)
Unless otherwise specified, the term storage system in this guide refers to the following disk arrays:
• HP P9500 Disk Array
• HP XP24000/XP20000 Disk Arrays
• HP XP12000/XP10000 Disk Arrays
• HP XP512/XP48 Disk Arrays
• HP XP1024/XP128 Disk Arrays
The GUI illustrations in this guide were created using a Windows computer with the Internet Explorer
browser. Actual windows may differ depending on the operating system and browser used. GUI
contents also vary with licensed program products, storage system models, and firmware versions.
Why use Business Continuity Manager?
The amount of data stored on corporate information systems has increased in tandem with the
importance of keeping that data safe. Due to the rising management costs associated with this
continually increasing size of storage system, the ability to manage mainframe system storage
available with Business Continuity Manager is in strong demand.
Business Continuity Manager offers centralized, enterprise-wide replication and duplication
management for mainframe environments, without the help of host processing. By taking advantage
of storage system copy functions, Business Continuity Manager makes it possible to perform reliable
backup operations in large-scale configurations. This minimizes disaster recovery time and data
loss, and reduces the workload on the storage administrator.
Business Continuity Manager provides access to critical system performance metrics and thresholds
that enable proactive problem avoidance. With this information, you can achieve optimum system
performance and meet or exceed service-level objectives.
The Business Continuity Manager auto-discovery capability eliminates hours of tedious input and
costly human errors resulting from configuring and protecting complex, mission critical applications.
16 Overview of HP P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software