Recovery Manager Central (RMC) 6.2.
0 Release
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Abstract
This document lists the new features and enhancements introduced in HPE Recovery Manager Central
(RMC) software version 6.2.0 and also includes fixes and known issues of RMC plug-in for VMware vCenter,
Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Oracle and SAP HANA databases.
Part Number: P00875-007
Published: September 2019
Edition: 2
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Release notes
Release description
HPE Recovery Manager Central software helps you to derive data-driven outcomes from your HPE Storage infrastructure,
such as policy-driven, application-integrated data protection at speeds required for all-flash storage with granular
recoverability, self-service copy data management, and data mobility across HPE primary storage arrays, secondary storage
systems, and public or private cloud storage tiers. At no additional cost with the purchase of an HPE primary storage system,
RMC provides a simple storage-integration solution for your business critical applications. RMC helps you to automate and
manage the full life cycle of your copy data regardless of whether it lives on-premises or on the Cloud, and used for multiple
use-cases such as backup and recovery, reporting, and analytics.
For more information, see the latest relevant user documentation:
Document title What the document contains Where to find
Recovery Manager Central Tasks you can perform with the RMC user
HTML — Recovery Manager Central 6.2.0
Online User Guide interface.
Online User Guide
PDF — Recovery Manager Central 6.2.0
Online User Guide
Recovery Manager Central for Tasks you can perform with the vSphere
HTML — Recovery Manager Central 6.2.0
VMware Online User Guide Web Client for using RMC-V.
for VMware Online User Guide
PDF — Recovery Manager Central 6.2.0
Online User Guide
Recovery Manager Central Conceptual information about RMC Recovery Manager Central Concepts Guide
Concepts Guide features.
Recovery Manager Central Information to assist you during RMC Recovery Manager Central Installation
Installation Guide installation. Guide
Recovery Manager Central CLI Reference information about the RMC CLI Recovery Manager Central CLI Guide
Usage Guide commands usage.
Recovery Manager Central Troubleshooting information to assist Recovery Manager Central Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Guide when you encounter a problem. Guide
Recovery Manager Central New features, enhancements, limitations, Recovery Manager Central 6.2.0 Release
Release Notes and fixes in the latest released version. Notes
SPOCK Information on supported HPE Storage Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge
Products and the relative environment, (SPOCK)
hardware, and software platforms.
Supersede information
Supersedes RMC 6.1.0.
Storage systems
The supported storage systems are HPE 3PAR, HPE Nimble Storage, HPE Primera, and HPE StoreOnce.
Operating systems
RMC is a virtual appliance that can be hosted on VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors.
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Languages
English
Features and Enhancements
RMC 6.2.0
• Supports upgrade from RMC 5.0.x, 6.0.0, and 6.1.0 to 6.2.0.
• Support for protection of volumes on Nimble storage system with both GST (Group Scoped Target) and VST (Volume
Scoped Target) scopes.
• Support for HPE Primera storage system.
• Create and manage crash-consistent local and remote snapshots of HPE Nimble volumes in a synchronous replication
scenario.
• SCSI reservation for peer copy target volumes.
RMC-E 6.2.0
• Support for Exchange databases hosted on Nimble array with both GST (Group Scoped Target) and VST (Volume
Scoped Target).
• Support for HPE Primera storage system.
• Migration of catalogs and schedules from HPE 3PAR Recovery Manager for Exchange (RM-E) to HPE Recovery Manager
Central for Microsoft Exchange (RMC-E).
• Support for HPE 3PAR 3 Data Centre (3DC) Peer Persistence.
• Support for MS Exchange 2019 on Windows 2019.
RMC-O 6.2.0
• Support for Oracle databases hosted on Nimble array with both GST (Group Scoped Target) and VST (Volume Scoped
Target).
• Support for Oracle databases hosted on VMFS datastores.
• Support for HPE Primera storage system.
• Automated recovery of Oracle databases from snapshots and backups.
• Ability to create multiple clones of Oracle databases on Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to either same or different Oracle
servers.
• Ability to optionally truncate the archive logs on successful creation of online snapshots. The truncation of the archive
logs feature enables automated space management of Archive Log Destinations.
RMC-V 6.2.0
• Support for HTML5 VMware vSphere web client.
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Starting RMC-V 6.2.0 release, only HTML5-based plug-in is supported. There is no support for the vSphere Adobe Flash
based web client plug-in.
• Support for VMware resources (VMs and Datastores) hosted on Nimble arrays.
This Includes the support for GST (Group Scoped Target) and VST (Volume Scoped Target) and support for both VMFS
and VVol Virtual machines.
• Support for HPE Primera storage system.
• Support for HPE 3PAR 3 Data Centre (3DC) Peer Persistence.
• Support for VMFS VM restore.
Enables you to restore individual VMFS virtual machines from RMC copies.
• Support for backup of Remote copy snapshots.
• Register and manage RMC-V plugin from RMC user interface.
• Introduction of Dashboard for RMC-V plugin.
Enhanced Protection summary graph with the details of protected and unprotected VMs or Datastore details.
• Introduction of Diagnostics scan and reports from RMC-V plugin.
• Support to view Policy execution details from RMC-V plugin Activity page.
• Support to view and manage clones from one common page (Manage clones).
• Enhanced search with protection details.
Search for RMC copies across all datastores and VMs (hosted on RMC supported HPE storage). Search provides
protected copy policy details in the Search summary.
• Introduction of Protection Group.
A Protection Group is a folder like structure that contains multiple VMs, datastores, and storage folders. You can use
Protection Groups for easier management of schedules and protection jobs.
◦ Support for Resource-level consistency and Group-level consistency.
◦ Ability to restore individual VMs or Datastores from a Group-level copy.
◦ Ability to view protected and unprotected VMs and Datastores and copy policy information while creating or editing a
protection group.
◦ Ability to protect all VMs and Datastores (hosted on remote copy groups or Nimble remote replication Volume
collection) using protection groups.
All the copies of the Remote Copy Groups (protected in RMC 5.x.0 and RMC 6.x.0) and its schedules or copies are
automatically migrated to the protection group in RMC 6.2.0.
RMC-S 6.2.0
• Ability to configure transaction log repository at an individual server level.
• Ability to add Microsoft SQL Server availability group databases to an availability group to perform restore operation.
• Support for HPE Primera storage system.
• Ability to unregister the Microsoft SQL Server, instance, databases that are obsoleted.
• New standard policy for transaction log backups for SQL databases.
• Support for Microsoft Windows 2019 and Microsoft SQL Server 2019.
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• Support for HPE 3PAR 3 Data Centre (3DC) Peer Persistence.
• Ability to protect MS SQL databases hosted on nimble storage system with RMC-S that was previously configured with
Nimble NWT.
• Support for SQL databases hosted on Nimble array with both GST (Group Scoped Target) and VST (Volume Scoped
Target).
RMC-SH 6.2.0
• Support for scale-up and scale-out databases on Nimble volumes.
• Support for databases that span across multiple HPE 3PAR storage systems.
• Support for vHANA for scale-up configuration and VMFS file systems.
• Support for management of SAP HANA hosts through user with sudo privileges.
RMC-SH enables you to perform server-related operations like server registration, unregistration, and refresh if you have
sudo privileges.
• Support for password less (SSH key-based) communication between RMC-SH and hosts.
• Support for HPE Primera storage system.
• Support for HANA Database hosted on Nimble array with both GST (Group Scoped Target) and VST (Volume Scoped
Target).
• Support of SAP HANA Platform 2 SPS 04 release.
• Support of databases on SLES SP 15 hosts.
• Support for database host connected over iSCSI with Storage System.
Installation instructions
The procedure for RMC installation is available in the Recovery Manager Central Installation Guide.
Upgrade information
You can upgrade to RMC 6.2.0 from 5.0.x and 6.x.0 using the RMC GUI. The upgrade procedure is available in the Recovery
Manager Central 6.2.0 Online Help.
Deprecated features
List of features obsolete from RMC 6.2.0 release:
• ISV support - The ability to perform ISV backups of RMC created snapshots. The ISV backup feature of RMC is not
supported because this feature is not a user-friendly way and requires two panes of glass for management.
• Support for multiple RMC appliances with one VMware vCenter not supported as it does not provide a simplified
management for users. As an alternative, when an RMC appliance of the right sized geometry is used, management
becomes simplified.
Limitations
• For RMC-O, if the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) version is earlier than 2.02.143, creation of multiple clones is
not supported with nonroot users.
• RMC-O does not support the protection of logical volumes in a mirrored configured Oracle database.
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• The current version of RMC supports only crash-consistent level of protection for the Nimble volumes with synchronous
replication.
• RMC-E does not support protecting an MS Exchange database hosted on an HPE Nimble Storage volume which is
already protected by Nimble VSS provider. Remove the Microsoft VSS application protection option of the volume
collection from the Nimble GUI to proceed with protection of MS Exchange database through RMC-E.
Issues and workarounds
The open issues and the workarounds for the different RMC plug-ins are categorized and listed in this section. The first
statement states the issue that you may have encountered and is followed by a suggested action.
RMC
When the copies count is large in number, the copies screen hangs, preventing all the further operations
Action
For all the copy policies, set the Auto Delete After option to ensure that the old snapshots are automatically deleted.
Volume collections with a combination of GST (Group Scoped Target) and VST (Volume Scoped Target)
volumes fail during Peer Copy and Express Protect operations
Symptom
Volume collections with a combination of GST (Group Scoped Target) and VST (Volume Scoped Target) volumes fail during
Peer Copy and Express Protect operations.
Action
Do not include GST and VST volumes in a single collection.
In case of RMC upgrade from RMC 5.0.x to RMC 6.2.0 and with remote configuration migrated, reports
in dashboard and storage device page display migrated local snapshots as remote snapshots
Action
No action required.
RMC-E
Associating a GOLD policy to multiple databases (for example, more than 20) hosted on a single MS
Exchange server may result in snapshot requests queuing up and failing
Action
For Exchange Servers displaying this issue, remove protection from each database and readd protection for each of the
databases individually by staggering the minute setting in the Effective From option to roll the execution of snapshots on
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the server. Alternatively, if databases have multiple instances in DAG then when applying protection to individual databases,
select alternative snapshot Server to balance the snapshot workload across multiple servers.
RMC-E snapshot creation fails if you are protecting the HPE Nimble Storage volume collection using
Nimble GUI and Nimble VSS provider
Action
1. Remove the Microsoft VSS application protection option of the volume collection from the Nimble GUI.
2. Retry snapshot creation operation.
Related information
Website Link
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Contact Hewlett Packard Enterprise Worldwide
www.hpe.com/support/e-updates
Subscription Service/Support Alerts
www.hpe.com/storage/rmc/swdepot/
Software Depot
www.hpe.com/support/selfrepair
Customer Self Repair
Documentation
www.hpe.com/info/enterprise/docs
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Information Library
www.hpe.com/storage/rmc/docs
RMC Documentation on Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Information Library
www.hpe.com/support/hpesc
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center
www.hpe.com/storage/spock/
Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK) Storage
Compatibility Matrix
www.hpe.com/storage/whitepapers
Storage White Papers
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