Sharing Thin Image Volumes With Truecopy And Universal Replicator - Hitachi VSP G1000 User Manual

No: You cannot perform the task (the command is rejected).
The following table lists the ShadowImage tasks you can perform when
sharing a Thin Image P-VOL with a ShadowImage S-VOL.
Create pair
Create and split pair
Split pair
Normal Copy
Reverse Copy
Quick Restore
Suspend replication
Delete pair
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Yes: You can perform the task.
No: You cannot perform the task (the command is rejected).
You can perform ShadowImage pair tasks after you store snapshot data, but
the consistency of the stored snapshot data is not guaranteed.
Thin Image S-VOLs use the data in the P-VOL. You cannot Quick Restore in
ShadowImage.
For more information about ShadowImage tasks and pair statuses, see the
Hitachi ShadowImage® User Guide.
Caution: Thin Image uses MU numbers 0 to 1,023, and they are assigned in
the order of 3 to 1,023, followed by 0 to 2. ShadowImage uses MU numbers
0 to 2. Thin Image cannot use the MU numbers 0 to 2 if you want to share
Thin Image volumes with ShadowImage.
To share Thin Image volumes with ShadowImage if Thin Image is using the
MU numbers 0 to 2:
1. Delete the Thin Image pair of the MU number 0 to 2.
2. Create the ShadowImage pairs and Thin Image pairs.

Sharing Thin Image volumes with TrueCopy and Universal Replicator

You can share Thin Image (HTI) P-VOLs with TrueCopy (TC) and Universal
Replicator (UR) pair volumes.
Hitachi Thin Image User Guide for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series and F Series
SI task
COPY
SI task
COPY
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Overview of Thin Image
HTI pair status
PSUS,
PAIR, PFUL
PFUS
HTI pair status
PSUS,
PAIR, PFUL
PFUS
No No
No No
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No No
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
SMPL(PD) RCPY PSUE
RCP
SMPL(PD) PSUE
Y
No No No
No No No
Yes No Yes
Yes No Yes
Yes No Yes
No No No
Yes No Yes
Yes Yes Yes
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