Table Of Contents - HP XP P9500 User Manual

Contents
1 Business Copy overview..............................................................................5
Business Copy software.............................................................................................................5
How Business Copy works.........................................................................................................5
Hardware and software components ..........................................................................................5
Volume pairs (P-VOLs and S-VOLs)..........................................................................................6
Cascaded pairs .............................................................................................................6
Remote Web Console GUI....................................................................................................7
RAID 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.............................................................................................................12
Planning number of pairs....................................................................................................12
Calculating number of differential tables, pair tables..........................................................13
Calculating maximum number of pairs ............................................................................14
Organizing volumes into P-VOLs and S-VOLs.........................................................................15
Planning for performance .......................................................................................................16
System options.......................................................................................................................17
3 Sharing Business Copy volumes..................................................................18
Open Volume Management.....................................................................................................18
Cache Residency....................................................................................................................18
LUN Manager........................................................................................................................18
Data Retention.......................................................................................................................18
Auto LUN .............................................................................................................................18
External Storage ....................................................................................................................19
Continuous Access Synchronous...............................................................................................19
Continuous Access Journal.......................................................................................................19
Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous Access Journal...................................................20
Thin Provisioning....................................................................................................................21
Snapshot...............................................................................................................................21
External Storage Access Manager............................................................................................24
Resource Partition...................................................................................................................25
Thin Provisioning Z.................................................................................................................26
4 Performing configuration operations............................................................27
Configuration workflow ..........................................................................................................27
Set up primary and secondary volumes.....................................................................................27
Reserve S-VOLs......................................................................................................................27
Set Host I/O Performance option..............................................................................................28
5 Performing pair operations........................................................................30
Pair operations workflow.........................................................................................................30
Check pair status....................................................................................................................30
Create pairs..........................................................................................................................30
Split and create pairs..............................................................................................................32
Splitting consistency group pairs with At-Time Split.................................................................35
Suspend pair creation.............................................................................................................36
Resynchronize pairs................................................................................................................37
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