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OceanStor BCManager eReplication Product Documentation

Product Version: 8.1.0


Library Version: 04
Date: 2022-03-30

For any question, please contact us.


Copyright © Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 2022. All rights reserved.

Product Introduction
Contents
2.1.1 Product Introduction

2.1.1 Product Introduction


This section describes the positioning, highlights, and software architecture of eReplication.

Background
In current enterprise IT systems, more and more applications that provide critical services need to be protected by the DR
mechanism. With the development of cloud-based IT systems, an increasing number of VMs also require DR protection. The IT
systems face the following challenges:

Unified management systems are unavailable for common applications, such as Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL
Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server, and VMs.
Different applications have different configuration and recovery processes. Configurations are complicated, time-
consuming, and prone to mistakes. Besides, no automated creation or deployment is available.
Service switchover and tests are not visualized. As a result, customers can hardly understand related processes.

eReplication guides you through the DR service configuration step by step, visualizes the DR service process, and provides
unified DR management of host applications and VMs.

Product Positioning
eReplication is designed to manage DR services of data centers for enterprises. With its excellent application-aware capabilities
and Huawei storage products' value-added features, eReplication ensures service consistency during DR, simplify DR service
configuration, support the monitoring of DR service status, and facilitate data recovery and DR tests.

Highlights
Simple and efficient
eReplication adopts an application-based management method and guides you through the DR service configuration step
by step. It supports one-click DR tests, planned migration, fault recovery, and reprotection.
Visualized
By graphically displaying physical topologies of global DR and logical topologies of service protection, eReplication
enables you to easily manage the entire DR process. The status of protected groups and recovery plans is clear.
Integrated
eReplication integrates storage resource management and can be used in various application scenarios, such as active-
passive DR, geo-redundant DR, HyperMetro DC, and local protection, reducing the O&M cost and improving the O&M
efficiency.
Reliable
eReplication ensures that the applications and data at the DR site are consistent with those at the production site. After
the production site fails, the DR site immediately takes over services from the DR site, ensuring business continuity. The
multi-site deployment improves the reliability of the DR service management system. eReplication backs up
management data automatically so that the management system can be recovered rapidly if a disaster occurs.

Software Architecture
eReplication is designed to protect host applications and VMs and help recover data when disasters occur. It is compatible with
Windows, Linux, AIX, and Solaris. On these platforms, eReplication works with value-added functions of Huawei storage arrays
to ensure data consistency, protect applications, and implement DR for applications. Virtualization DR protects VM in virtual
environments, such as FusionSphereand vSphere VMware. A dopting the browser/server(B/S)architecture, eReplication allows
you to use a browser to manage DR. Figure 1 shows the eReplication software architecture.
Figure 1 eReplication software architecture

eReplication contains two parts:

eReplication Agent
Installed on a service host, the eReplication Agent is used to discover host applications, protect application data
consistency, and recover applications. It also transfers information about application systems to the eReplication Server
to help system administrators manage and configure data protection and DR tasks at ease.

If the protected objects are FusionSphere VMs, VMware VMs, or NAS file systems, you do not need to install the eReplication Agent.

eReplication Server
Installed on a DR management server, the eReplication Server provides DR service process control, DR policy
scheduling, and configuration data management of DR resources and services. The eReplication Server contains the UI
sub-system that provides users a GUI to perform DR management in a visible manner.
Parent Topic: Overview
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