HP Matrix Operating Environment Recovery Management 7.1 User Guide

NOTE:
• Recovery Groups can be imported one at a time only. You must repeat the import...→Select
import file... procedure for each Recovery Group that you import.
• If a Recovery Group in the exportconfig file has the same name as a Recovery Group at
the importing site, it is not imported. If you are importing a Recovery Group that already exists
in the Matrix recovery management configuration but has been modified, you will need to
delete the Recovery Group of the same name at the importing site, before you can import the
modified version of that Recovery Group.
• If a Recovery Group in the exportconfig file references a Storage Replication Group that
is being used by another Recovery Group at the importing site, the import fails.
DR protection for IO services
Matrix infrastructure orchestration (IO) provides rapid provisioning and re-purposing of infrastructure
services from shared resource pools using a self-service portal. IO delivers advanced template-driven
design, provisioning, and ongoing operations for multi-node, multi-tier infrastructure services.
Beginning with Matrix Operating Environment 7.1, IO is integrated with Matrix recovery
management to provide DR Protection for IO services. IO services are capable of DR Protection in
a Matrix recovery management configuration when they are:
• Deployed on virtual machines from an IO template
• Associated with storage that is supported by Matrix recovery management (this includes User
Defined storage—for more information see “Creating and installing a User Defined storage
adapter” (page 13))
IO services that are capable of being DR Protected in a Matrix recovery management configuration
are referred to as recoverable IO services.
Recoverable IO services can be selected from a drop-down menu in Matrix recovery management
when you configure IO services Recovery Groups. After IO services Recovery Groups are configured,
the IO services they contain will be DR Protected. OO workflows provide system administrators
with automatic email notification when IO operations (for example, create service, delete service,
add disk, add server, change lease) are performed on DR Protected IO services that require
configuration changes in Matrix recovery management.
When Matrix recovery management and IO are installed on the same CMS and recoverable IO
services have been configured, you can create DR Protected IO services Recovery Groups as part
of the initial Matrix recovery management configuration process, or you can add DR Protected IO
services Recovery Groups to an existing Matrix recovery management configuration. The
configuration procedure is similar.
DR Protection of IO services configuration overview
1. Configure IO properties on Local Site and Remote Site CMS. For more information, see
“Configure IO properties” (page 23).
2. Configure the OO workflows. For more information, see “Configure OO workflow for optional
email notification” (page 24).
3. Configure network for DR Protected IO services. For more information, see “Network
configuration” (page 25).
4. Create recoverable IO services templates. For more information, see the HP Matrix Operating
Environment 7.1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide available at http://www.hp.com/
go/matrixoe/docs.
5. Configure recoverable IO services using IO. For more information, see the HP Matrix Operating
Environment 7.1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide available at http://www.hp.com/
go/matrixoe/docs.
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