HP Insight Recovery, an optional extension of HP Insight Dynamics - VSE suite for ProLiant, provides for automated disaster recovery
of logical server environments. Logical servers are server profiles, which are easily created and freely moved. They can be managed
in the same way, whether they are deployed as physical servers or virtual machines. With a simple mouse click, HP Insight Recovery
transfers application environments, running on HP BladeSystem or in VMware virtual machines, to a recovery site, located away from
the original site impacted by a disaster situation. HP Insight Recovery utilizes the Continuous Access capabilities of HP storage
environments to ensure that application data is properly transitioned to the recovery location, and that the overall transition is
measured in minutes, not days.
HP Insight Recovery provides disaster recovery protection for logical servers configured and managed by Insight Dynamics-VSE (ID-
VSE). Logical servers that are managed by HP Insight Recovery are referred to as Disaster Recovery Protected (DR Protected) logical
servers. Each DR Protected logical server is configured to run on an HP ProLiant Server; either a C-class Blade equipped with HP
Virtual Connect, or on a virtual machine under the control of a VMware ESX Server. An HP Insight Recovery configuration consists of
two sites, each running ID-VSE and HP Insight Recovery. At any point in time, one site is configured with the primary role and the
other is configured with the recovery role. The primary site volumes are replicated on an HP StorageWorks EVA array at the recovery
site. The primary and recovery site arrays are synchronized with Continuous Access EVA. Each replicated recovery site volume is
associated with a DR Protected logical server at the Recovery site.
Licensing for HP Insight Recovery is done on a per-server basis, where both the primary and recovery servers (which make up the
protected "pairs") must each have HP Insight Recovery license applied. Licenses for HP Insight Recovery are managed separately by
the local Central Management Server on both the primary and recovery sites, and as such licenses must be obtained uniquely for
each location. Prerequisite products are HP Insight Dynamics - VSE for each protected server, as well as the HP Continuous Access
EVA software within the EVA storage array environment.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE with the Insight Recovery option makes HP BladeSystem Matrix disaster recovery-ready, by pre enabling
disaster recovery protection for both physical and virtual logical servers. HP Insight Dynamics - VSE provides the advanced
management and automated provisioning capabilities at the core of the Matrix Orchestration Environment for HP BladeSystem
Matrix (
www.hp.com/go/matrix
). HP BladeSytem Matrix is a fully integrated cloud infrastructure in a box that helps you accelerate
business service delivery without chaos, and take costs out today and keep them out in the future.
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HP Insight Recovery is considered to be "customer installable/configurable", so although HP recommends the purchasing of
the HP Insight Recovery Installation & Startup Service, the customer is not required to do so. HP Insight Recovery does have a
prerequisite of HP Insight Dynamics - VSE suite for HP ProLiant which is not considered to be "customer installable/configurable".
Installation and Start-up services for HP Insight Dynamics - VSE are required for each HP SIM Central Management Server (CMS)
where HP Insight Dynamics - VSE and HP Insight Recovery will be deployed. Installation and Start-up Services are offered by, and
need to be performed by, HP Services and Authorized Business Partners. After the HP SIM CMS is fully installed and operational with
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE and HP Insight Recovery, customers may purchase and add-on more Insight Dynamics - VSE and/or
Insight Recovery licenses to meet future business requirements.
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