HP StorageWorks XP24000 Business Copy Software User's Guide (T5213 - 96001, June 2007)

3Preparing forBusinessCopy
Operations
This chapter describes the requirements and preparations you should know before attempting Business
Copy operations.
System Requirements
Business Cop
y operations involve the storage system containing the primary and secondary volumes
and the licensed Business Copy program product enabled on the Remote Web Console. The system
requirements for Business Copy are as follows.
Volume Requirements
Therequirementsfor thevolumes to be used as Business Copy pairsare as follows:
RAID level
The RAID level combinations of the P-VOL and the S-VOL of a Business Copy pair must be one
of the following.
Table 7 Supported Combinations of RAID Levels
P-VOL
S-VOL
RAID1 RAID5 RAID6
RAID1
OK OK OK
RAID5
OK OK OK
RAID6 OK OK OK
Types of volumes
Besides normal volumes, you can use external volumes, custom-sized volumes and LUSE volumes.
When using external volumes, customized volumes, or LUSE volumes, note the following points:
•External volumes
The license of External Storage is required.
Custom-sized volumes
The license for VLL is required. To create a Business Copy pair with custom-sized volumes,
P-VOL must be paired with S-VOLs of the same capacity and the same emulation type.
•LUSE volumes
The license for LUSE is required. To create a Business Copy pair with LUSE volumes, you must
make sure that P-VOLmustbepairedwithS-VOL of thesamesizeand thesamestructure.
Forexample,if the P-VOLisaLUSE volume where volumes of 1GB, 2GBand 3GBare
combined in this order, youmustmakesurethat the S-VOLisaLUSE volume wherevolumes
of 1GB, 2GBand 3GBare combined in thesame order.
Emulation type
Only volumes of the following emulation types can be used: OPEN-3, OPEN-8, OPEN-9, OPEN-E,
OPEN-K, OPEN-L, or OPEN-V.
Logical DKC (LDKC), CU, LDEV number
You can use volumes whose LDKC:CU:LDEV (a combination of an LDKC number, a CU number,
and an LDEV number) is within the range of 00:00:00 to 00:FE:FF, or 01:00:00 to 01:FE:FF.
MU number
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