Replication solutions for the HP StorageWorks EVA

Course overview

This 3-day course provides the student with practical information and hands-on experience in implementing and operating HP StorageWorks Business Copy and Continuous Access for the EVA. This course describes Business Copy and Continuous Access concepts, planning and installation, and operations. The course also provides instructions on how to fail over and manage Continuous Access EVA using the Replication Solutions Manager interface and Command View EVA. Continuous Access EVA extended configurations, best practices, and troubleshooting complete the course materials.

Prerequisites

• HP Storage Technologies WBT (U5071aae)
• HP StorageWorks Full-Line Technical WBT (U4220aae)
• HP Storage Software and Solutions Full-Line Technical WBT (U4221aae)

Audience

• Partners and resellers
• Storage administrators

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Course objectives

• Describe the Business Copy and Continuous Access EVA benefits and concepts
• Identify BC and CA EVA configurations and restrictions
• Describe the functions of the Replication Solutions Manager interface
• Describe CA EVA configuration tasks and failover operations
• Identify CA EVA extended configurations
• Discuss CA recommended practices and troubleshooting to enhance its use

Course outline

Business Copy EVA concepts and operations

• Key features and benefits
• Replication methods
• BC jobs
• Additional BC EVA functions

Business Copy EVA planning and installation

• BC Network
• Planning a BC network
• BC network configurations

Continuous Access EVA solution overview

• Market trends
• HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA

Continuous Access EVA concepts

• Copy sets
• DR groups
• Synchronous write mode
• Asynchronous write mode
• Failsafe mode
• Normal mode
• DR group states
• Managed sets

Continuous Access EVA planning and setup

• Basic Continuous Access EVA configuration
• Alternate configurations
• Planning a Continuous Access EVA solution
• Dynamic load balancing

Continuous Access EVA operations

• Pre-Continuous Access EVA configuration tasks
• Replication solutions manager
• RSM functions
• RSM events pane
• Command View EVA remote replication functions

Continuous Access EVA failover

• Failover decision
• Planned failover
• Unplanned failover
• Performing failover operations
• Recovery from failsafe-locked condition
• Activating the standby storage management server

Continuous Access EVA extended configurations

• Supported Continuous Access EVA extended configurations
• Continuous Access EVA with stretched clusters
• Continuous Access EVA performance estimator

Continuous Access EVA best practices

• Planning ahead for a disaster
• Comparing Continuous Access EVA management with size and distance
• Improving performance of extended solutions
• HP recommendations for FC-IP networks
• Load balancing controllers and intersite links
• Comparing synchronous and asynchronous modes
• Moving data using Continuous Access EVA
• Job templates
• Managing disk groups
• Comparing full copy and merge operations
• Throttling of merge I/O after logging
• Creating a destination snapclone before a full copy
• Log location
• Storage management server offline during replication operation
• Using multiple servers to manage storage
• General RSM recommendations
• Saving Continuous Access EVA configuration information
• Local replication best practices and maintenance
• Managing replication events

Continuous Access EVA troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting Continuous Access EVA configurations
• Troubleshooting storage problems
• Troubleshooting the RSM interface
• Allocating the destination Vdisk