SSHQV4_1.10.0 - Documentation Index

Table of Contents

• Welcome
• What's new
• PDFs
• Release Notes
  • Release Notes 1.10.0
• Overview
• Concepts
  • KSYS
  • HMC
  • Sites
  • Hosts
  • Workgroup
  • Virtual machines
  • VIOS
  • Storage agents
    • EMC SRDF storage subsystem
    • SAN Volume Controller system and Storwize system
      • Safeguarded snapshots backup
      • Policy-based replication (PBR)
      • Policy-based high availability policy-based replication(PBHA-PBR)
    • DS8000 storage system
    • Hitachi storage systems
      • Setting up VM Recovery Manager DR for Hitachi storage systems
    • XIV Storage System
    • EMC Unity Storage System
  • Network
• Planning
  • Requirements
    • Installing VIOS and KSYS interim fixes
  • Limitations
  • Prerequisites
    • Prerequisite for virtual machines that run on the Linux operating system
• Disaster recovery mechanism
• Installing
  • KSYS package
  • Installing
  • Upgrading
  • Uninstalling
• Configuring
  • Flow chart for KSYS configuration
  • Setting up the KSYS subsystem
    • Initiating the KSYS node
    • Creating sites
    • Adding HMCs to the KSYS
    • Adding hosts to the KSYS
    • Creating host pairs
    • Creating host groups
      • Creating asymmetric host group
    • Adding storage agents to the KSYS
      • Registering EMC SRDF storage devices
      • Registering SVC and Storwize storage devices
      • Registering DS8000 series storage devices
      • Registering Hitachi storage devices
      • Adding storage agents to the IBM XIV Storage System
      • Deploying the EMC Unity storage agent across the home site and the backup site
    • Setting up contacts for event notification
    • Configuring VIOS
    • Customizing consistency group name
    • Configuring the site-specific IP address
    • Configuring Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) override feature
    • Configuring Virtual Network Interface Card (VNIC) override feature
  • Configuring snapshot policies on IBM Flash System
  • Discovering resources
  • Verifying the configuration
    • Daily checks by KSYS
  • High availability features
  • Configuring DPCOM disk
• Recovering VMs
  • Failover rehearsal of the disaster recovery operation
    • Performing the DR failover rehearsal operation
  • Flow chart for disaster recovery
  • Initiating the disaster recovery
  • Recovering the failed virtual machines
  • Moving the virtual machines by using the force option
  • Moving the virtual machines by using other options
  • Relocation plan for virtual machines
  • Unmanaged disks
  • State of the KSYS operations
• Administering
  • Generating the KSYS system report
  • Configuring the flexible capacity policies
  • Configuring the network mapping policy
  • Modifying the KSYS configuration
  • Removing resources from the KSYS configuration
  • Managing the KSYS notifications
  • Managing the system attributes
  • Managing the shared storage configuration
  • Administrating safegaurded snapshots with backup and restore
  • Backing up and restoring the configuration data
    • Saving and restoring snapshots
  • Managing the CoD resources
    • VM Recovery Manager DR and Power Enterprise Pool
    • VM Recovery Manager DR and Elastic (On/Off) CoD
  • VM Recovery Manager DR coexistence with other products and offerings
    • Live Partition Mobility and VM Recovery Manager DR coexistence
    • IBM PowerVC and VM Recovery Manager DR coexistence
    • PowerHA SystemMirror and VM Recovery Manager DR coexistence
    • Fibre Channel port labeling
  • Running scripts for additional checks
  • Running the disaster recovery scripts
  • Generating license usage report
  • Configuring national language support
• Commands
  • ksysmgr command
  • ksysrppmgr command
• VM Recovery Manager DR GUI
  • Logging in to the VM Recovery Manager DR GUI
  • Navigating the VM Recovery Manager DR GUI
  • Reports in VM Recovery Manager DR GUI
  • Working in the GUI
  • GUI certificate and private-key pairs
  • GUI log collection utility
  • User role management in GUI
  • Setting up MFA
  • National language support for GUI
  • Modifying system tunable attributes
  • Shared processor pool
  • Custom CG name
  • Manage or unmanage disk
  • KsysHA cluster creation
  • KSYS details in GUI
  • Implement Disk View or NPVI
  • EMC Unity Storage
  • Workgroup dashboard
• Deployment with high availability (HA) features
  • Configuring HADR
  • Configuring HADRHA
  • Limitations
  • Local database mode
• Troubleshooting
  • Notification for the KSYS events
  • Analyzing the log files
  • Solving common problems
• FAQ
  • VMRM DR Glossary