HP XP P9000 Business Copy User Guide (AV400-96573, July 2013)
Table Of Contents
- HP XP P9000 Business Copy User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Business Copy overview
- 2 Requirements and planning
- 3 Sharing Business Copy volumes
- Cache Residency
- Fast Snap and Snapshot
- Data Retention
- Thin Provisioning and Smart Tiers
- External Storage Access Manager
- LUN Manager
- Open Volume Management
- Resource Partition
- Continuous Access Synchronous
- Continuous Access Journal
- External Storage
- Auto LUN
- 4 Performing configuration operations
- 5 Performing pair operations
- 6 Monitoring and maintaining the system
- 7 Troubleshooting
- 8 Support and other resources
- A Interface support for BC operations and options
- B Business Copy GUI reference
- Replications window
- Local Replications window
- View Pair Properties window
- View Pair Synchronous Rate window
- View Histories window
- Consistency Group Properties window
- Create Pairs wizard
- Split Pairs wizard
- Resync Pairs wizard
- Suspend Pairs window
- Delete Pairs window
- Edit Mirror Units dialog box
- Change Options dialog box
- Add Reserve Volumes Wizard
- Remove Reserve Volumes window
- Edit Local Replica Option wizard
- C Configuration operations (secondary window)
- D Pair operations (secondary window)
- E Monitoring and maintaining the system (secondary window)
- F Business Copy GUI reference (secondary window)
- Glossary
- Index
For more information about these configurations, see the HP XP P9000 Continuous Access Journal
User Guide.
Sharing volumes in a 3-Cnt Ac-J DC multi-target configuration
You can share BC volumes with Cnt Ac-J volumes in 3 DC multi-target configurations. You can
share the BC P-VOL and S-VOLs with Cnt Ac-J volumes, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 1 BC volumes in a 3-Cnt Ac-J DC multi-target configuration
In these configurations, BC pair operations are dependent on the pair status of the Cnt Ac-J
local-intermediate pair and the local-remote pair.
The following table shows the supported BC operations when the P-VOL is shared with Cnt Ac-J
P-VOL.
BC operationsCnt Ac-J
intermed.-remote
pair status
Cnt Ac-J
local-intermed.
pair status
Resync -- Quick
Restore
Resync --
Reverse Copy,
Create, Split, Suspend, Delete,
Resync--Normal Copy, Quick Resync
NONOYESPAIR or
COPY(PD)/COPY
PAIR,
COPY(PD)/COPY*,
and PSUS/SSWS
NONOYESPSUS/SSWSPAIR or
COPY(PD)/COPY
NOYESYESPSUS/SSWSPSUS/SSWS
* You cannot perform BC operations if the status for both Cnt Ac-J pairs is COPY.
The following table shows the supported BC operations when the S-VOL is shared with Cnt Ac-J
P-VOL.
BC operationsCnt Ac-J
intermed.-remote
pair status
Cnt Ac-J
local-intermed.
pair status
ResyncSuspend,
Delete
SplitCreate
Quick RestoreNormal Copy, Quick
Resync, Reverse Copy
NONOYESNONOPAIR or
COPY(PD)/COPY*
COPY(PD)/COPY*,
or PSUS/SSWS
NONOYESNONOPSUS/SSWSPAIR or COPY
NOYESYESYESNOPSUS/SSWSPSUS/SSWS
* You cannot perform BC operations if the status for both Cnt Ac-J pairs is COPY(PD)/COPY.
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