Table Of Contents - HP StorageWorks P9000 - Disk Arrays User Manual

Contents
1 Business Copy Z overview...........................................................................6
Business Copy Z software..........................................................................................................6
How Business Copy Z works......................................................................................................6
Hardware and software components ..........................................................................................6
Volume pairs (S-VOLs and T-VOLs)..........................................................................................7
Remote Web Console GUI....................................................................................................7
PPRC, Business Continuity Manager, and consistency groups.....................................................7
Initial and update copy operations..............................................................................................7
Initial copy .........................................................................................................................8
Update copy ......................................................................................................................8
2 Requirements and planning.......................................................................10
System requirements................................................................................................................10
License capacity requirements .................................................................................................11
Planning pair volumes.............................................................................................................11
Planning number of pairs....................................................................................................11
Calculating number of differential tables, pair tables..........................................................12
Calculating maximum number of pairs ............................................................................13
Organizing volumes into S-VOLs and T-VOLs.........................................................................13
Planning for performance .......................................................................................................14
System options.......................................................................................................................15
Preparing for Business Continuity Manager, PPRC use..................................................................15
Business Continuity Manager requiring a command device.....................................................15
Business Continuity Manager, PPRC operation commands ......................................................16
3 Sharing Business Copy Z volumes...............................................................17
Virtual LVI..............................................................................................................................17
Cache Residency....................................................................................................................17
Auto LUN .............................................................................................................................17
External Storage ....................................................................................................................17
Continuous Access Synchronous Z.............................................................................................17
Continuous Access Journal Z....................................................................................................18
Continuous Access Synchronous Z and Continuous Access Journal Z.............................................18
Compatible FlashCopy............................................................................................................19
Compatible XRC.....................................................................................................................20
Concurrent Copy....................................................................................................................20
4 Performing configuration operations............................................................21
Configuration workflow ..........................................................................................................21
Set up source and target volumes..............................................................................................21
Reserve T-VOLs.......................................................................................................................21
Reserving a consistency group..................................................................................................22
Set Host I/O Performance option..............................................................................................23
5 Performing pair operations........................................................................25
Pair operations workflow.........................................................................................................25
Check pair status....................................................................................................................25
Create pairs..........................................................................................................................25
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