NEC IS016-5E User Manual

NEC Storage Manager Data Replication User’s Manual (Installation and Operation Guide for Windows) IS016-5E

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Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 5 Replication Management (GUI) Uninstallation Refer to the “User’s Manual” or “User’s Manual (UNIX)” in accordan

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 6(2) ReplicationControl Software Installation To install ReplicationControl, follow the procedure below. (1) Lo

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 7(4) Select the deletion of the following software component by using [Add/Remove Programs] ([Add or Remove Prog

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 8 ReplicationControl outputs the operation trace (trace log) in the folder iSMrpl\etc\trace under the folder wher

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Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 10Figure 1-4 shows an example of setting five pairs and one IV on the backup server as a control volume. A contro

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Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 12Table 1-3 gives an example of setting logical disk names and OS types for an LD configuration example when a co

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Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 14Table 1-5 Access Control Setting Example Director No. Port No. Access Control settings Server connected 0

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Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 16• An RV of a maximum of four volumes can be set for one PV. For DynamicDataReplication, an RV of a maximum of

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Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 18Then, select [Define Control Volume] in [Operation] in the Volume List Display screen to open the Define Contro

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 19(1) Select a logical disk you want to use as a control volume from “Candidate Volume List”. (2) Click the [Ad

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 20 Figure 1-12 The definition of control volume: Termination Message Screen Clicking the [OK] button closes

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Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 23Step 3. Checking RV volume In Windows 2000, using [Disk Management] (Windows), check that the disk to be use

Preface This manual describes how to use the data replication function provided by NEC Storage DynamicDataReplication Ver2, NEC Storage RemoteData

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 24Step 7. Setting pair Use the Replication Management (GUI) for setting a pair. In addition, the pair setti

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 25 Flush Normal End 2001/02/21 11:08:14 disk10 dev001 WN

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 26 - - Separating… Separate Normal End 2001/02/21 11:08:21 MV:10 dev001

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 27Upon successful creation of Volume List, the following message appears: iSMvollist: Info: iSM11701: Volu

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Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 29iSMrc_umount: Info: iSM13221: Resetting drive letter (H:) (\\?\Volume{37d84cca-2507-11d5-a0f7-00004c714491

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 30Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance This chapter describes an example of operation using the Data Replicati

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 31 Work flow of the backup example <Business server> <Backup

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 32(2) Operation procedure Step 1. Terminating applications (backup server) To maintain data consistency, te

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 33Then, the following message appears and RV is unmounted. Umount Start 2001/02/21 12:27:02

Description Corresponding Manual Messages Handbook NEC Storage Manager Messages Handbook (IS010) Data Replication User’s Manual (Function Guide) NE

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 34Step 5. Terminating applications (business server) To maintain data consistency, terminate or halt applic

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 35Step 7. Unmounting MV (business server) You must create a perfect static point of MV data. This is for wr

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 36Then, the following message is displayed and MV is separated. Separate Start 2001/02/21 12:23:16

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 37Step 10. Restarting applications (business server) Restart the applications closed in Step 5. If services

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 38Step 12. Restarting applications (backup server) Start the applications and services terminated in step 1

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 39(2) Data restoration with use of replication function The following describes the procedures of completely

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 40Work flow for an example of the master volume data recovery <Business server> <Backup server>

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 41Step 1. Terminating applications (business server) Terminate or halt applications and specified services

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 42Step 3. Executing Restore from tape (backup server) Restore data from the tape to RV, using backup softwa

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 43 D: If normal unmounting fails, execute unmounting again by specifying the -force option. iSMrc_umount

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Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 44# Type:MV Type:RV ld:dev001 ld:dev002 When Restore with RV protection specified is executed, Separate

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 45If sharing of the folder was cancelled in step 1, specify the sharing again. If sharing was not cancelled

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 46Use RV again as a backup volume. Step 14. Restarting service (backup server) Resume the applications and

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Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 48By using the Separate function which enables the use of RV also in the middle of separation while reflecting

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 49 The following describes the procedure for executing replication control for the RV that is can be use

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 50When executing unmounting, all application software, that may access the drive, must be terminated in advanc

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 51Step 5. Terminating applications (business server) To maintain data consistency, terminate or halt applic

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 52In addition, although separating is allowed without unmounting in this step, unmounting upon replication and

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 53Step 9. Mounting MV (business server) To associate MV and the file system, mount MV. iSMrc_mount -drv G:

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Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 54Mount Start 2001/02/21 12:26:14 disk11 dev002

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Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 56Step 1. Shutting down server (backup server) Shut down a server that is connected with RV. Step 2. Ex

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 57Step 5. Executing CHKDSK (backup server) In step 2, separation was executed without specifying a static p

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 58Then, the following message appears and RV is unmounted. Umount Start 2001/02/21 11:21:14

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Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 60 Figure 2-9 An Example of the Copy Fault Occurrence Screen Operations after recovering from a copy faul

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 61 Figure 2-10 An Example of the Link Failure Occurrence Screen Operations after recovering from a link f

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Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 63- When iSMrc_umount command terminates abnormally on business server - Step 1. Terminate application (bac

Chapter 1 Installation Procedure 1Chapter 1 Installation Procedure This chapter describes the system installation procedures showing an example o

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 64iSM13224: MV is restored. Volume Name: mount point volume name Mount Point: drive letter or NTFS folder pa

Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 65 Figure 2-12 My Computer Screen When RV is “Not Ready” and cannot be accessed, the following message ap

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Chapter 2 Operation and Maintenance 67(2) If server is restarting Execute the procedure below so that the OS to recognize the RV again. Step 1.

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Chapter 3 Notes 69Chapter 3 Notes This chapter describes some notes regarding management and operations of Data Replication. 333...111 WWWiii

Chapter 3 Notes 70 Data replication operation using a logical disk containing multiple partitions or logical volumes is not recommended. In Repli

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Chapter 3 Notes 72Table 3-2 Copy Control States Copy Control State Sub-State Copy State Sync Mode • Updates MV and RV synchronously. Afte

Chapter 3 Notes 73Table 3-3 RV Access Restriction Commands Access restriction Description replicate restore separate Read/Write (RW) RV is en

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Chapter 3 Notes 74Usual file As basic operations, first temporarily halt the operations on the MV and flush the MV cache data using the command pr

Chapter 3 Notes 75(3) Restoration and Data Consistency When restoring data upon failure on MV of business server, backup data existing on tape is

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Chapter 3 Notes 77(3) Separate, Replicate, and Restore are executed in units of disks but not units of partitions. Be careful in setting and o

Chapter 3 Notes 78(7) Upon failure of unmounting, CHKDSK /F /X is executed with mount point volume name specified. “\” at the end of mount poi

Chapter 3 Notes 79• On Windows 2000, when an RV is unmounted, the RV access restriction is changed to Not Ready. Accordingly, when a volume in

80 Index A abnormal end ... 62 abnormal end of iSMrc_restore command... 63

81 restarting...... 55 restarting master/backup server ...

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