Business Copy Z System Requirements And Planning; Business Copy Z System Requirements - HP XP7 User Manual

2 Business Copy Z system requirements and planning

Abstract
This chapter describes system requirements and planning tasks for BC Z storage systems.

Business Copy Z system requirements

The following table shows minimum requirements for BC Z.
Item
BC Z license capacity
License key
RAID level
RWC
BCM/IBM PPRC
RAID Manager
Pair volumes
Requirement
The installed license capacity must be greater than or equal to the combined size of all
P-VOLs and S-VOLs.
For more information about license capacity requirements, see
and licensed capacity requirements" (page
Must be installed.
RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6
Required.
Use BCM or IBM PPRC but not both interface tools.
If you use BCM, a command device is required for remote array operations.
For more information about preparing BCM and IBM PPRC, see
Manager and IBM PPRC preparation" (page
Required if you are running commands through an in-band fibre channel connection.
Otherwise, RAID Manager is not required.
For more information about RAID Manager and running commands through an in-band
fibre channel connection, see the HP XP7 RAID Manager User Guide.
The pair volumes.
Values:
Number of P-VOLs per S-VOL: One
Number of S-VOLs per P-VOL:
Range: At least one and a maximum of three.
Volume Capacity: The P-VOL and S-VOLs must have the same capacity.
Supported emulation types.
For more information about the supported emulation types, see
supported emulation types" (page
Supported volume types:
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Internal volumes.
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External volumes configured as mainframe volumes.
Note: External Storage license is required.
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Custom-sized volumes.
Note: VLVI is required. Pair volumes must have the same capacity and emulation
type.
Mirror Unit number (MU number):
Values:
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(For RWC and RAID Manager) 0, 1, or 2
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(For BCM or IBM PPRC) Not specified
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