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

• If you do not want to set any option, clear all check boxes in the Select Option(s) box.

3. Click Apply.

You can now perform a Business Copy operation with the speciﬁed option.

Creating Pairs

WARNING:

The Bu

siness Copy paircreate operation overwrites all existing data on the S-VOLs. The user

is responsibl

e for backing up the data on the S-VOLs before creating Business Copy pairs.

The Paircreat

edialogbox (see Figure 31 on page 66) allows you to select the S-VOLs for each P-VOL, set

the copy pace f

or all pairs being created, and start the paircreate operations. Information about how to

create norma

l pairs or cascaded L1 pairs, see “Creating L1 Pairs” on page 68. Information about how

to create cascaded L2 pairs, see “Creating L2 Pairs” on page 69.

To create new Business Copy pairs and then split them immediately so that you can access the S-VOLs as

soon as possi

ble, use the Pairsplit dialog box instead of the Paircreate dialog box to create and split new

pairs at the

same time (see “Splitting Pairs” on page 71 for instructions).

Figure 31 Paircreate Dialog Box

The Paircreate dialog box consists of the following components.

• Paircreate Volume List

TheVolumeListlocated on theupper side of thePaircreatedialogbox displays the following

information pertaining to the P-VOL and S-VOL used for creating a pair:

• P-VOL: Information about P-VOL is displayed in AAA-BB-CCC(XX:YY:ZZ) format.

• AAA: The port ID (cluster and channel number)

• BB: The group number of host group

•CCC: LU number

• XX:YY:ZZ: LDKC number:CU number:LDEV number

Note:

An LDEV number that ends with a # mark indicates that the LDEV is an external volume

(for example, 00:00:01#). An LDEV number that ends with a letter X indicates that the LDEV is

a virtual volume used by XP Thin Provisioning (for example, 00:00:01X). For details regarding

Performing Business Copy Operations