HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual page 4

Creating the schedule ............................................................................................................... 29
Creating the schedule for volume sets ................................................................................... 30
Timing for a scheduled remote snapshot ............................................................................... 31
What the system does ......................................................................................................... 32
Pausing and resuming scheduled snapshots .................................................................................. 32
Pause a schedule ................................................................................................................ 32
Resume a schedule ............................................................................................................. 32
Editing the schedule to remote snapshot a volume ......................................................................... 33
Edit the remote snapshot schedule ........................................................................................ 33
Deleting the remote snapshot schedule ........................................................................................ 33
Failover and failback using Remote Copy ..................................................................................... 33
Planning failover ................................................................................................................ 34
Using the Volume Failover/Failback Wizard ................................................................................. 34
Converting a primary volume to a remote volume ................................................................... 34
Using failover to remote volume ........................................................................................... 35
Resuming production after failover .............................................................................................. 36
Synchronizing data after failover .......................................................................................... 36
Example scenario ........................................................................................................ 36
Returning operations to original primary site .......................................................................... 36
Synchronizing the data between the acting primary volume and the original primary
volume ....................................................................................................................... 37
Creating a new primary volume at the original production site ........................................... 37
Setting up a new production site .......................................................................................... 38
Making the backup site into the new production site ............................................................... 38
Rolling back primary and remote volumes .................................................................................... 38
Using SmartClone to clone a volume from a snapshot ............................................................. 38
Rolling back a primary volume ...................................................................................... 38
Prerequisites ................................................................................................................ 38
Rolling back a remote volume .............................................................................................. 39
Using remote snapshots for data migration and data mining .......................................................... 40
New for release 8.0 ........................................................................................................... 40
Creating a split mirror .................................................................................................. 40
Disassociating remote management groups .................................................................................. 40
Best practice for disassociating management groups ............................................................... 40
3 Sample Remote Copy configurations ................................................... 43
Using Remote Copy for business continuance ............................................................................... 43
Achieving high availability .................................................................................................. 43
Configuration for high availability ........................................................................................ 43
How this configuration works for high availability ................................................................... 44
Best practices .................................................................................................................... 46
Remote snapshots with volume replication ....................................................................... 46
Example configuration .................................................................................................. 46
Achieving affordable disaster recovery .................................................................................. 47
Configuration for affordable disaster recovery ........................................................................ 47
How this works for affordable disaster recovery ...................................................................... 48
Best practices .................................................................................................................... 50
Select an optimum recurrence schedule. ......................................................................... 50
Use remote snapshots in conjunction with local, synchronous volume replication ................... 50
Using Remote Copy for off-site backup and recovery ..................................................................... 50
Achieving off-site backup ..................................................................................................... 51
Configuration for off-site backup and recovery ....................................................................... 51
Configuration diagram ................................................................................................. 51
How this configuration works for off-site backup ..................................................................... 51
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