HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.4.1-00 User Guide (TB584-96065, April 2013)

About creating copy pair configuration definitions ................................................................ 149
Copy pair configuration conditions .............................................................................. 149
Prerequisites for pair configuration ............................................................................... 150
Storage system conditions for pair configuration definition ............................................... 151
Conditions for volume selection ................................................................................... 152
Conditions for primary volumes that can be added (open systems) .................................. 152
Conditions for primary volumes that can be added (mainframe systems) ........................... 152
Conditions for secondary volumes that can be added (open systems) .............................. 152
Conditions for secondary volumes that can be added (mainframe systems) ...................... 153
Creating pairs and pair groups .......................................................................................... 154
Editing pair names ........................................................................................................... 155
About filtering candidate volumes ....................................................................................... 156
Conditions affecting displayed storage system information ............................................... 156
Selecting multiple candidate volumes .................................................................................. 156
About volume capacity checking ........................................................................................ 157
Defining copy groups .............................................................................................................. 157
About copy groups ........................................................................................................... 157
Copy group requirements for pair configuration (mainframe systems) ................................ 158
About assigning CTGID/JNLGID for copy pairs .................................................................... 158
Conditions for creating local copy pairs with the CTG option ........................................... 158
Configuring open and mainframe consistency groups ........................................................... 159
About HORCM instances .................................................................................................. 159
Creating copy groups ....................................................................................................... 160
Changing copy group names ............................................................................................ 161
Associating pair groups with copy groups ........................................................................... 161
Creating a container with multiple copy groups (mainframe systems) ............................................. 162
Supported copy group and container combinations .............................................................. 163
Defining multi-target and cascade configurations ........................................................................ 163
About multi target and cascade copy pair configurations ...................................................... 163
Copy type requirements for pair configuration definitions ................................................ 164
Permitted topologies for cascade and multi-target configurations ...................................... 166
About delta resync ........................................................................................................... 166
Limitations when performing 3DC configuration pair operations (mainframe systems) .......... 167
Defining copy groups in a multi-target or cascade configuration ............................................. 167
Creating a 3DC multi-target configuration ........................................................................... 167
Scheduling and managing tasks ............................................................................................... 168
About tasks ..................................................................................................................... 168
About task statuses ........................................................................................................... 170
About task types (open systems) ......................................................................................... 170
About task types (mainframe systems) .................................................................................. 171
Scheduling tasks .............................................................................................................. 171
Modifying task execution schedule ............................................................................... 171
Editing tasks .............................................................................................................. 172
Viewing a list of tasks ....................................................................................................... 173
Canceling tasks ............................................................................................................... 174
Deleting tasks .................................................................................................................. 174
Distributing copy group definitions (mainframe) .......................................................................... 174
About distributing copy group definitions ............................................................................. 175
Example of copy group definition distribution scenario .................................................... 176
Prerequisites for distribution destination hosts (copy group definitions) ............................... 176
Conditions for changing copy group distribution primary host .......................................... 176
Conditions that disrupt copy group distribution relationships ............................................ 177
About pre-distribution of copy group definition files ............................................................... 177
Confirming distribution hosts .............................................................................................. 177
Creating and managing workflows ........................................................................................... 178
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