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
Status of unaffected S-VOLs, operations permitted
The pair operations you can perform depend on the pair’s status, but also on the status of unaffected
S-VOLs. The following table shows which operations can be performed, given the status of S-VOLs
related to the P-VOL in other pairs.
Pair operationStatus of
unaffected
S-VOLs
Delete pairsSuspend pairsResync pairs
(reverse)
Resync pairs
(forward)
Split pairsCreate pairs
NONONONONONOSMPL(PD)
YESYESNOYESYESYESCOPY(PD)/COPY
YESYESNOYESYESYESPAIR
YESYESNOYESYESYESCOPY(SP)/COPY
YESYESNOYESYESYESPSUS(SP)/PSUS
YESYESYESYESYESYESPSUS
YESYESNOYESYESYESCOPY(RS)/COPY
YESYESNONONOYESCOPY(RS-R)/RCPY
YESYESYESYESYESYESPSUE
Monitoring pair, volume details
You can review the data related to L1 and L2 pairs and their volumes. This includes volume capacity,
pair status, P-VOL and S-VOL, identifiers, and several other details. To check pair and volume
details, select the pair in Local Replications then click More Actions > View Pair Properties.
Related information
• “View Pair Properties window” (page 81)
Monitoring synchronous rates
You can check on the percentage of synchronized data between the P-VOL and S-VOL.
• Select the pair in Local Replications then click More Actions > View Pair Synchronous Rate.
Clicking Refresh View shows the latest synchronous rate. If you close the window, information in
the Local Replications window may not be the latest. Click Refresh View again.
Related information
• “View Pair Synchronous Rate window” (page 83)
Monitoring consistency groups
You can check the number of consistency groups and the details and individual properties for
consistency groups.
• View the number of consistency groups in the Summary section of the Local Replications
window.
• View a list of consistency groups with status and number of pairs on the Consistency Groups
tab in the Local Replications window.
• View a consistency group’s properties by clicking the CTG ID link on the Consistency Groups
tab in the Local Replications window.
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