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
The following table shows the BC operations that you can perform when the P-VOL is shared with
Cnt Ac-J S-VOL/P-VOL at intermediate site.
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(PD)/COPY.
The following table shows the BC operations that you can perform when the P-VOL is shared with
Cnt Ac-J S-VOL at remote site.
BC operationsCnt Ac-J
intermed.-remote pair
status
Resync -- Reverse Copy,
Quick Restore
Create, Split, Suspend, Delete,
Resync--Normal Copy, Quick Resync
NOYESPAIR or
COPY(PD)/COPY
YESYESPSUS/SSWS
Sharing volumes in a 3-Cnt Ac-J DC delta resync (cascade) configuration
The cascade delta resync configuration with shared BC volumes is shown in the following figure.
You can share BC P-VOLs with the delta resync P-VOL and the S-VOL.
Figure 4 BC volumes in a delta resync (cascade) configuration
When a delta resync pair is part of the 3 DC cascade configuration, supported operations for BC
pairs are dependent on the Cnt Ac-J pairs.
32 Sharing Business Copy volumes