Requirements And Specifications; System Requirements - HP XP P9500 User Manual

2 Requirements and specifications

This chapter provides system requirements for Continuous Access Journal.

System requirements

Continuous Access Journal operations are performed between the host(s) and the primary and
secondary storage systems containing the P-VOLs and S-VOLs, using the data path.
General requirements for the Continuous Access Journal components are listed below.
Table 1 General system requirements
Item
Number of P9500 systems
Continuous Access Journal
Other licenses required
Interfaces
Supported host platforms
Data path
Requirement
Two—one at the local site, one at the remote site. Also, any combination of the
following can be used with Continuous Access Journal:
Four on primary side
Four on secondary side
Must be installed on primary and secondary P9500 storage systems.
License keys required.
On secondary systems, Continuous Access Journal can coexist with Continuous
Access Journal Z.
When a virtual volume of Thin Provisioning (V-VOL) is used for a Continuous
Access Journal P-VOL or S-VOL, the capacity of the allocated pages for the
V-VOL is included in the licensed capacity of Continuous Access Journal. If the
actual licensed capacity exceeds the available licensed capacity, you may use
Continuous Access Journal for 30 days. After 30 days, Continuous Access
Journal pairs may only be split or released.
Continuous Access Synchronous is required, whether or not Continuous Access
Journal shares volumes with Continuous Access Synchronous).
Continuous Access Journal 3DC & 4x4 Open MF in the following Continuous
Access Journal configurations:
- When running a 3DC system
- When performing Continuous Access Journal operations on multiple primary
and secondary storage systems
The following program products can be used:
Remote Web Console
Administrator or Continuous Access Journal write access is required; otherwise
read access is provided with Remote Web Console.
RAID Manager
UNIX based and PC-server platforms:
HP-UX 1 1.0 and 1 1i
Oracle Solaris 9
Windows 2000
Windows 2003
IBM AIX 5.1
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