Prerequisites to provisioning for high availability

Make sure that the following conditions are met before provisioning for high availability:

• Ops Center Protector v6.9.x or later is registered in Ops Center Administrator.
  Note:

  • To apply the same capacity saving setting as the selected volumes to the secondary volumes, Ops Center Protector v7.5.x or later needs to be registered.
  • To protect a volume which is also the primary volume in another high availability pair, Ops Center Protector v7.5.2 or later needs to be registered.
• The registered Ops Center Administrator must meet the following requirements:
  • Both primary and secondary storage systems are registered with Ops Center Protector.
  • Global-active device licenses for both primary and secondary storage systems are installed in Ops Center Protector.
• At least one Fibre Channel server must be registered.
• The primary and secondary storage systems must have the following configured:
  • Remote paths that are configured bidirectionally.
  • A quorum disk. (The same disk and ID must be assigned in each storage system.)
  • A VSM configured as follows:
    • If the VSM in the primary storage system is using the meta_resource, a VSM with at least one undefined host group must be configured in Ops Center Administrator for the secondary storage system. This is not required if you specify Host Mode Option 88.
    • If the VSM in the primary storage system is not using the meta_resource, a VSM with at least one undefined volume and one undefined host group must be configured for the primary storage system, and a VSM with at least one undefined host group must be configured for the secondary storage system in Ops Center Administrator. This is not required if you specify Host Mode Option 88.
• Make sure that both primary and secondary storage systems:
  • Are onboarded in Ops Center Administrator.
  • Have at least one Fibre port.
  • Have global-active device licenses.
  • For VSP G1x00, F1500 storage systems, firmware version 80-06-6x or later is installed.
  • For VSP G200, G/F400, G/F600, G/F800 storage systems, firmware version 83-04-01-x0 or later is installed.
  • There is enough room to create volumes and remote pairs including CTG.
  • There is a DP or DT pool with enough capacity.