HP XP 9500 Storage Replication Management

Course overview

This 3-day course introduces students to the HP XP 9500 disk array replication solutions. Students receive configuration practice on HP XP 9500s with P9000 Business Copy, Business Copy Snapshot, RAID Manager, and Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous Access Journal.

Prerequisites

• HP Accelerated SAN Essentials (UC434S) and
• HP XP 9500 Storage Administration and Configuration (HK905S)

Audience

• Storage Administrators

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Course objectives

At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:

• Understand HP XP 9500 disk array replication solutions
• Understand the functionality of Business Copy, Business Copy Snapshot, and Business Copy Fast Snap
• Describe and configure Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous Access Journaling
• Understand the configuration and use of Raid Manager for managing Business Copy and Continuous Access
• Describe the use of Command View Advanced Edition Replication Manager in conjunction with Business Copy and Continuous Access

Benefits to you

• Gain the knowledge and valuable hands-on experience needed to administer the next generation XP 9500 array replication software

Course outline

Replication Solutions for HP XP 9500

• P9000 software suite
• Business Copy
• Business Copy Snapshot
• Continuous Access Synchronous
• Continuous Access Journal
• High Availability solutions using XP 9500/XP arrays
• Command View Advanced Edition Replication Manager
• Cluster solutions
• Solutions and integrations

XP P9000 Business Copy

• Overview
• State and state transitions
• Commands
• Mirror unit tables
• Managing cascades
• Swap and freeze
• Host performance
• At-time split function
• GUI review

RAID Manager for Business Copy

• Overview
• Function
• RAID Manager instance
• Installation
• Configuration
• Hitachi Online Remote Configuration Manager (HORCM)
• RAID Manager configuration file
• Business Copy pairs

Snapshot and Fast Snap

• Overview
• Architecture
• Installation
• Configuration

Continuous Access (CA) Synchronous and Journal

• CA concepts
• CA synchronous operations
• CA synchronous configuration
• CA Journal operations
• CA Journal configuration

RAID Manager for Continuous Access

• Overview
• Configuration
• Pair commands

Replication Manager (RM)

• Features
• Architecture
• RM monitoring
• Integrated pair management