HP Storage Enclosure AP843B manual Hardware, VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM, QuickSpecs

QuickSpecs

HP MSA P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array Systems

Hardware

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that delivers business- continuity and disaster-recovery solution that helps you plan, test, and execute the recovery of vCenter virtual machines. SRM can discover and manage replicated datastores, and automate migration of inventory from one vCenter to another. Site Recovery Manager integrates with the underlying replication product through a Storage Replication Adapter (SRA).

HP P2000 Site Recovery Adapter (SRA)

The HP P2000 SRA, a free-to-use plugin, is the program that integrates the VMware cCenter SRM with HP P2000 G3 arrays. It enables full-featured use of the VMware SRM. It is a host-software component installed on a Microsoft Windows Server that enables disaster recovery management (DRM) software on the host to communicate and control certain aspects of the replication feature in storage systems connected to the server. It allows the VMware SRM software to automatically coordinate virtual machine failover and failback between a protected data center and a disaster recovery site by employing a disaster recovery solution called Remote Snap. A perfect combination of the Remote Snap replication and VMware SRM provides an unfailing automated solution for implementing and testing the disaster recovery between sites located across geographies. It enables communication between the HP P2000 Remote Snap replication functionality that is embedded in HP P2000 Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Combo Fibre Channel systems. Users are required to acquire Remote Snap license for their local and remote HP P2000 G3 arrays to use the HP P2000 SRA.

Site Recovery Manager Requirements/Dependencies:

Requires vSphere 5.0/SRM 5.0

Not compatible with SRM 4.x

Requires HP's P2000 SRA 2.0 Plug-in (downloadable from Hp.com)

SRM works with Remote Snap functionality

Requires purchase of P2000 G3 Remote Snap licenses (one for each site)

Customers must upgrade to T240 or the latest firmware

SRM works with FC, iSCSI or Combo controllers only

HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter

HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter is a component within the HP Insight Control plug-in for vCenter. It provides VMware administrators that are using VMware's vSphere management console (vCenter) with the ability to see how virtual machines are mapped to datastores and individual P2000 volumes. By providing these clear relationships between VM's, datastores and storage, the VMware administrator's productivity increases, as does the ability to ensure quality of service. Roles for administrators can be defined on an individual basis, providing the ability to apply specific permissions for both view and control functions.

The HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter supports mixed array environments including EVA, P4000, P2000 (MSA), and the XP array series including the P9500.

When deployed with the P2000 array, provides the following:

Active Management functionality for the P2000 array:

Create/Expand/Delete a Datastore

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