HP P9000 Continuous Access Synchronous User Guide (AV400-96400, October 2011)

Table 6 General system requirements (continued)
RequirementItem
Supported host platforms
• HP-UX
• IBM AIX
• Red Hat Linux
• Oracle Solaris
• Windows server 2003
• Windows Server 2008
• VMware ESX
Contact your HP account team for the latest information.
Data path
• 8 paths at maximum, from MCU to RCU.
• Fibre Channel, direct or with switch connections. See “Planning data paths” (page 25).
Logical paths
• Maximum of eight from primary system to secondary system.
• Logical paths are established for primary and secondary systems CUs separately.
• Maximum number of logical paths allowed for a primary system is 32 (8 paths per
secondary system x 4 secondary systems per primary system).
Maximum number of
secondary systems
• Maximum of four secondary system per primary system.
• Each secondary system CU must be added separately to a primary system.
Pair volumes
• P-VOL and S-VOL must be equal in size.
• The maximum size of P-VOL and S-VOL is 4,194,304.000MB(8,589,934,592 blocks).
However, when primary system or secondary system is XP12000 Disk Array/XP10000
Disk Array, it is 2,949,120.00MB(6,039,797,760 blocks).
• The minimum size of P-VOL and S-VOL is 48.000MB(96,000 blocks) for OPEN-V. It
is 36.000MB(72,000 blocks), except for OPEN-V.
• One P-VOL may only be copied to one S-VOL.
• P-VOL and S-VOL can be shared with other program product volumes. See “Volume
types that can be shared with Continuous Access Synchronous” (page 31).
See “Planning volume pairs” (page 20) on for more information.
Limited per P9500 system. See “Maximum number of pairs supported” (page 22).Number of pairs
Maximum number: 128 (0x00 to 0x7F)Number of consistency
group
Host failover software
• Required for disaster recovery.
• Recommended for data migration.
See “Host failover software” (page 30) for more information.
Continuous Access
Synchronous Interfaces
• Remote Web Console
Required◦
◦ Storage Administrator (Remote Copy) role is required. The primary system must be
LAN-attached to a Remote Web Console computer.
◦ The secondary system should be attached using a separate LAN at the remote site.
• RAID Manager
◦ Optional
◦ Command device required for each RAID Manager instance. See the HP P9000
RAID Manager User Guide for information on setting up and using RAID Manager.
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