Sharing Volumes With Auto Lun; Workflow For Assigning Bc Z Volumes To Volumes Reserved For Auto Lun; Sharing Volumes And Volume Retention Access Attributes; Workflow For Setting Up To Use Volumes In Business Copy Z Pairs - HP XP7 User Manual

Sharing volumes with Auto LUN

You can assign the following BC Z volumes to volumes reserved for Auto LUN:
L1 P-VOL with up to two S-VOLs.
L2 P-VOL with an S-VOL.

Workflow for assigning BC Z volumes to volumes reserved for Auto LUN

Use the following workflow to assign BC Z volumes to volumes reserved for Auto LUN:
1. If you are assigning BC Z volumes other than the ones you can assign to volumes reserved
for Auto LUN, delete the BC Z pair. Otherwise, skip this step.
2. Complete one of the following:
Assign the BC Z volumes to a volume reserved for Auto LUN.
Migrate the volumes.
3. If you assigned the BC Z volumes to a volume reserved for Auto LUN, complete the following:
a. Release the pair volumes from the volume reserved for Auto LUN.
b. Perform BC Z pair tasks.

Sharing volumes and Volume Retention access attributes

You can create BC Z pairs using volumes for which you set access attributes using Volume Retention
(Vol Ret Z).

Workflow for setting up to use volumes in Business Copy Z pairs

Use the following workflow to set up to use volumes in BC Z pairs for which you set access attributes
using Vol Ret Z:
1. Use Vol Ret Z to set the volume's access attributes.
For more information about the access attributes you can set, see
access attribute setting using Volume Retention" (page
2. Perform BC Z pair and reserve attribute change tasks for the volumes.
For more information about the tasks that you can perform, see
attribute settings" (page

Business Copy Z volume access attribute setting using Volume Retention

Use Vol Ret Z to set the P-VOL and S-VOL access attributes.
You can set the following access attributes:
Read/Write
Read Only
Protect
For use with BC Z, Read/Write access is required for the S-VOLs and for the P-VOLs for a reverse
resync.
CAUTION:
set the Read Only or Protect attribute.

BC Z pair tasks and access attribute settings

The access attribute setting determines which BC Z pair tasks and change tasks you can perform.
28 Sharing Business Copy Z volumes
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To prevent the copy processing or pair suspension from ending abnormally, do not
"Business Copy Z volume
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"BC Z pair tasks and access