HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual page 9

Failover Managers ..................................................................................................... 150
Virtual Managers ....................................................................................................... 151
Configuration Summary overview .............................................................................................. 151
Summary roll-up ............................................................................................................... 151
Configuration guidance .................................................................................................... 152
Best practices ............................................................................................................ 152
Reading the configuration summary ............................................................................. 153
Best Practice summary overview ................................................................................................ 155
Disk level data protection .................................................................................................. 156
Disk protection using RAID .......................................................................................... 156
Large single-system SATA cluster .................................................................................. 156
Cluster-level data protection ............................................................................................... 156
Volume-level data protection .............................................................................................. 156
Volume access ................................................................................................................. 156
Systems running managers ................................................................................................ 156
Network speed and bandwidth .......................................................................................... 156
Management group maintenance tasks ...................................................................................... 157
Logging in to a management group .................................................................................... 157
Choosing which storage system to log in to ................................................................... 157
Logging out of a management group .................................................................................. 157
Adding a storage system to an existing management group ................................................... 158
Starting and stopping managers ........................................................................................ 158
Starting additional managers ...................................................................................... 158
Stopping managers .................................................................................................... 158
Editing a management group ............................................................................................. 159
Setting or changing the local bandwidth priority ............................................................ 159
Set or change local bandwidth priority ......................................................................... 160
Backing up a management group configuration ................................................................... 160
Backing up a management group with remote copy relationships ........................................... 160
Back up a management group configuration ................................................................. 160
Restoring a management group .......................................................................................... 161
Safely shutting down a management group ................................................................................ 161
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................... 161
Shut down the management group ............................................................................... 161
If volumes are still connected to servers or hosts ............................................................. 161
Start the management group back up ................................................................................. 162
Restarted management group in maintenance mode ....................................................... 162
Manually change management group to normal mode ................................................... 162
Removing a storage system from a management group ................................................................ 163
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................... 163
Remove the storage system .......................................................................................... 164
Deleting a management group ................................................................................................. 164
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................... 164
Delete the management group ..................................................................................... 164
Setting the management group version ................................................................................ 164
9 Using specialized managers ............................................................ 165
Definitions ............................................................................................................................. 165
Failover Manager overview ...................................................................................................... 165
Failover Manager requirements .......................................................................................... 165
Minimum system requirements for using with VMware ESX Server ..................................... 165
Planning the virtual network configuration ............................................................................ 166
Upgrading the 7.0 Failover Manager .......................................................................... 166
Using the Failover Manager on VMware ESX Server .................................................................... 166
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