HP P9000 Business Continuity Manager User Guide

Business Continuity Manager provides centralized management of HP P9000 mainframe replication
products, regardless of where they reside on the storage system. This provides many business
benefits including:
• Improved business resilience and confidence through frequent, non-disruptive disaster recovery.
• Robust disaster recovery and planned outage functions, which make for smooth operations
and dramatically reducing recovery times.
• Easy to acquire storage system information, making it possible to avoid disaster recovery
failures caused by specifying the wrong duplication target.
• Easy development of additional automation with built-in automation and extensibility features,
using the familiar REXX language, to protect more data with less effort.
• Accelerated deployment of Continuous Access Journal for Mainframe, Continuous Access
Synchronous for Mainframe, Continuous Access Asynchronous for Mainframe and Business
Copy for Mainframe software solutions through a single, consistent user interface based on
the familiar TSO/ISPF full-screen panels.
Communication with HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite
Software
P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software is a series of storage management
solutions that can centrally manage ever-larger storage systems to help reduce storage system
management workloads, and streamline storage system operations.
However, because P9000 Command View Advanced Edition products were originally designed
to manage open-system storage, their full power could not be unleashed in the field of
mainframe-system storage management. For this reason, users who owned both open-system and
mainframe-system storage had to manage them separately.
In recent years, customers have been demanding programs that can manage both open-system
and mainframe-system storage to address the problem that increasing storage sizes tends to increase
storage management cost.
Business Continuity Manager can link with P9000 Replication Manager, which is a management
server solution from the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition product family. If Business
Continuity Manager is linked with P9000 Replication Manager, both open-system and
mainframe-system storage can be centrally managed from P9000 Replication Manager.
This linkage is achieved via Business Continuity Manager agents that, when configured
appropriately, provide an interface between the two solutions by receiving requests from P9000
Replication Manager and passing them on to Business Continuity Manager.
Figure 1 (page 18) is a conceptual illustration of this centralized management of open-system and
mainframe-system storage that can be achieved when Business Continuity Manager (shown as BC
Manager) is linked with P9000 Replication Manager (shown as Replication Manager).
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