Overview Of The P9000 Virtualization Adapter; Discovery Of Disk Arrays And Luns - HP XP20000/XP24000 Administrator's Manual

1 Overview of the P9000 Virtualization
Adapter
HP StorageWorks P9000 Virtualization Adapter (P9000 Virtualization Adapter) is a Perl interface
between VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and HP StorageWorks P9000 and XP disk arrays.
The interface enables SRM to provide automatic access to remote data copies when virtual machines
become unavailable locally.
The P9000 Virtualization Adapter performs the following functions for SRM:
Discovers disk arrays
Discovers replicated LUNs
Fails over storage for testing (test a recovery plan)
Fails over storage for recovery (execute a recovery plan)
Unless otherwise specified, the terms disk arrays, P9000, and XP in this guide refer to the following
supported disk arrays:
HP StorageWorks P9500 Disk Array
HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array
HP StorageWorks XP20000 Disk Array
HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array
HP StorageWorks XP10000 Disk Array
Also, the terms Business Copy, Continuous Access, Continuous Access Journal, Snapshot, and RAID
Manager, refer to the to the following supported products:
HP StorageWorks P9000 Business Copy Software
HP StorageWorks XP Business Copy Software
HP StorageWorks P9000 Continuous Access Synchronous Software
HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software
HP StorageWorks P9000 Continuous Access Journal Software
HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Journal Software
HP StorageWorks P9000 Snapshot Software
HP StorageWorks XP Snapshot Software
HP StorageWorks P9000 RAID Manager Software
HP StorageWorks XP RAID Manager Software

Discovery of disk arrays and LUNs

During SRM configuration, the P9000 Virtualization Adapter is called to discover available arrays
and replicated LUNs.
The following information is discovered:
Storage Array IDs serial number
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