Table Of Contents - HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual

Contents
1 Understanding and planning Remote Copy ........................................... 9
How Remote Copy works ............................................................................................................. 9
Graphical representations of Remote Copy ............................................................................ 10
Copying the primary snapshot to the remote snapshot ...................................................... 10
Graphical legend for Remote Copy icons ........................................................................ 10
Remote Copy and volume replication .................................................................................... 11
Uses for Remote Copy ......................................................................................................... 11
Benefits of Remote Copy ..................................................................................................... 12
Planning for Remote Copy .......................................................................................................... 12
Planning the remote snapshot .............................................................................................. 12
Prerequisites for creating a remote snapshot .................................................................... 12
Logging in to primary and remote management groups .................................................... 13
Designating or creating the remote volume ...................................................................... 13
Using schedules for Remote Copy ............................................................................................... 13
Planning the Remote Copy schedule ..................................................................................... 13
Recurrence .................................................................................................................. 13
Capacity .................................................................................................................... 14
Retention policies ......................................................................................................... 14
Best practices .................................................................................................................... 15
2 Using Remote Copy .......................................................................... 17
Working with remote snapshots .................................................................................................. 17
New for release 8.5 and greater .......................................................................................... 17
Creating a remote snapshot ................................................................................................. 17
Best practice ............................................................................................................... 17
Getting there ............................................................................................................... 17
Creating the primary snapshot ...................................................................................... 18
Creating primary snapshots for volume sets ..................................................................... 19
Creating a remote volume ............................................................................................. 21
What the system does .................................................................................................. 22
Creating the first copy .................................................................................................. 22
Viewing a list of remote snapshots ........................................................................................ 24
Setting the remote bandwidth .............................................................................................. 24
Selecting remote bandwidth rate .................................................................................... 24
Best practice ............................................................................................................... 24
Setting the bandwidth .................................................................................................. 25
Canceling a remote snapshot ............................................................................................... 25
Editing a remote snapshot ................................................................................................... 25
Deleting a remote snapshot ................................................................................................. 25
Monitoring remote snapshots ...................................................................................................... 26
Monitoring details from the Remote Snapshots feature ............................................................. 26
Viewing information in the Remote Snapshots tab ............................................................. 26
Viewing the status in the Remote Snapshot Details window ................................................ 26
Scheduling remote snapshots ..................................................................................................... 29
Best practices for scheduling remote snapshots ............................................................................. 29
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