HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual page 23

1. Configure both the primary and remote management groups.
2. Create the first copy of the data locally over the gigabit Ethernet.
3. Ship the storage systems for the remote site and install the remote management group just as you
configured it in the primary site.
4. Allow adequate time between the arrival of the storage systems and the first remote copy
operation.
NOTE:
The subsequent snapshots from the primary volume to the remote volume are incremental.
Use the PrimeSync method of Remote Copy to configure a temporary management group, create the
first copy locally, ship the temporary storage system, and then copy locally to the remote target.
Use this method if you have the primary (Site A) and remote site (Site B) configured and operational.
1. While at the primary Site A, use available storage systems to create a new temporary management
group, cluster, and volume.
This management group, cluster, and volume are the PrimeSync that you will set up at the primary
Site A.
2. Make a remote snapshot of the primary Site A volume, and then copy it to the temporary PrimeSync
management group over gigabit Ethernet. See
3. Ship the storage systems to the remote Site B.
4. Power them on and discover them in the CMC to display the temporary PrimeSync management
group, cluster, and volume.
5. Copy the remote snapshot from the temporary PrimeSync management group to the existing
remote Site B management group.
6. Disassociate the temporary PrimeSync management group from the remote Site B management
group. For more information, see
7. Delete the temporary PrimeSync management group.
8. Set up the desired Remote Copy relationship, such as configuring a schedule to create remote
snapshots of the volume from the primary Site A to remote Site B management group.
PrimeSync ensures that the proper relationship is established between the original primary volume
and the remote site. Subsequent remote snapshots from the primary site to the remote site are
incremental.
NOTE:
Use the initial snapshot that you used for the temporary PrimeSync management group copy, to create
the second Remote Copy or the schedule to create remote snapshots of the volume. You are now
setting up the Remote Copy that goes from primary site A directly to remote site B which maintains
that relationship going forward.
For more information on PrimeSync, see the "Application Note: SAN/iQ Remote Copy PrimeSync —
Creating Initial Copy" at http://www.hp.com/support/manuals.
"Creating a remote
"Disassociating remote management
P4000 Remote Copy user guide
snapshot" on page 17.
groups" on page 40.
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