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

RAID Manager pair status nameRWC pair status name
RCPYCOPY(RS-R)/RCPY
PSUEPSUE
Status, pair operations permitted
A pair’s status shows whether a desired operation can be performed. Each operation requires a
specific status, or is permitted for multiple possible statuses.
Supported operations and statuses are shown in the following tables.
Pair operationPair Status
Delete pairsSuspend pairsResync pairs
(reverse)
Resync pairs
(forward)
Split pairsCreate pairs
N ONONONONONOSMPL(PD)
YESYESNONOYESYESCOPY(PD)/COPY
YESYESNONOYESYESPAIR
YESYESNONONOYESCOPY(SP)/COPY
NOYESNOYESNOYESPSUS(SP)/PSUS
YESYESYESYESNOYESPSUS
YESYESNONONOYESCOPY(RS)/COPY
YESYESNONONOYESCOPY(RS-R)/RCPY
YESNONOYESNOYESPSUE
Related information
• “Status for L1, L2 pairs and operations permitted” (page 55)
• “Status of unaffected S-VOLs, operations permitted ” (page 57)
Status for L1, L2 pairs and operations permitted
When you have cascaded pairs, the operations that you can perform depend on pair status for
both layers. The ability to perform an operation depends on the following:
• To perform an L1 operations, the status of the L2 pair
• To perform an L2 operations, the status of the L1 pair
• Supported read/write on L1 and L2 S-VOLs
Supported operations and statuses are shown in the following tables.
Table 6 Supported L1 pair operations for related L2 Status
L1 pair operationL2 Pair Status
Delete pairsSuspend pairsResync pairsSplit pairsCreate pairs
YESYESYESYESYESCOPY(PD)/COPY
YESYESYESYESYESPAIR
YESYESNONONOCOPY(SP)/COPY
YESYESNONONOPSUS(SP)/PSUS
YESYESYESYESYESPSUS
Monitoring the system 55