Updating Registered Remote Copy Pairs Information

1.Launch Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere Admin Tool and click the HP 3PAR Management Plug-in and Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere Admin Tool tab.

2.Click Remote Copy Pairs tab.

3.Select a Remote Copy pair from the list and click Update.

4.Select the new system information from the Local and Remote drop-down menus. If applicable, enter another RMV host name.

5.Click Update.

Viewing Host Information Summary

From the vSphere Plug-in Storage System tree pane, select a storage system, and click the Summary in the detail pane to view the information of the storage system.

Figure 64 Storage System Summary

Table 10 Storage System Summary Information

General

Value

System name:

Name of storage system

System model:

Model of storage system

Serial number:

Storage system serial number

System ID:

Storage system ID number

System WWN:

World Wide Name of storage system

Number of nodes:

Number of nodes available in storage system

Nodes online:

Nodes appearing online

Logged on as:

Login user

Viewing Existing and Newly Added Remote Copy Information

Use the vSphere Client to navigate and view registered storage system remote copy pairs and remote copy groups for local and remote systems.

Launch vSphere Client, select Home at the top of navigation bar and click HP 3PAR Management Plug-in... From the HP 3PAR Storage System tree pane, select a storage system and click the Remote Copy tab.

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