HP StorageWorks P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.1.1 User Guide (TB584-96030, September 2011)

Creating and managing workflows ........................................................................................... 173
About workflows .............................................................................................................. 173
Saving workflows ............................................................................................................. 173
Viewing a list of workflows ................................................................................................ 174
Editing workflows ............................................................................................................. 174
Deleting workflows ........................................................................................................... 175
Managing copy pair configuration definitions ............................................................................ 176
About editing copy pair configuration definitions .................................................................. 176
Prerequisites for changing copy pair configuration (mainframe systems) ............................ 177
Relationship between managed resources and memory heap size .................................... 177
Adding copy pairs (completed workflow) ............................................................................ 177
Editing copy groups by associating new pair groups ............................................................. 178
Conditions for copy types to be displayed (open systems) ............................................... 179
Conditions for copy types to be displayed (mainframe systems) ........................................ 180
Editing copy groups by associating new copy pairs .............................................................. 181
Editing copy groups by setting copy type ............................................................................ 182
Editing copy group settings ................................................................................................ 183
About inheritance of copy group configuration options from BCM .................................... 184
Copy group settings options (mainframe) ...................................................................... 184
Deleting copy groups ........................................................................................................ 186
Deleting copy pairs from copy groups ................................................................................. 187
Importing existing configuration definition files ..................................................................... 188
Modifying imported configuration definition files .................................................................. 189
Performing pair operations ....................................................................................................... 190
About copy pair operations ............................................................................................... 190
Option items for copy pair operations (open systems) ..................................................... 190
Option items for copy pair operations (mainframe systems) ............................................. 191
Details of copy pair operation options (mainframe systems) ............................................. 195
When performing operations on EXCTGs (mainframe systems) ......................................... 201
About copy pair status ...................................................................................................... 201
Copy pair status categories ......................................................................................... 202
Conditions for determining copy pair status ................................................................... 202
About copy pair states ...................................................................................................... 208
Correspondence between copy pair states and the copy pair statuses in prerequisite
products ................................................................................................................... 208
Changing copy pair status ................................................................................................ 212
About changing copy pair status ................................................................................. 213
Pair status transitions (when the target is a copy group) ................................................... 213
Pair status transitions (when the target is a single or multiple copy pairs) ........................... 218
Supported operations for copy groups and copy pairs (mainframe systems) ....................... 220
About Change Pair Status Wizard ................................................................................ 222
Change pair status workflow ....................................................................................... 223
Launching the Change Pair Status Wizard ..................................................................... 223
Changing the copy pair status for each copy pair .......................................................... 224
Changing the copy pair status for each copy group or container ..................................... 225
Changing the copy pair status for multiple copy pairs (batch operation) ............................ 227
Confirming copy status during task execution ....................................................................... 228
Advanced pair operations and recovery scenarios ................................................................ 229
Takeover operation .................................................................................................... 230
Swap operation ......................................................................................................... 231
Force-split operation ................................................................................................... 231
Takeover-recovery operations (resync and recreate) ........................................................ 231
Advanced recovery use cases ...................................................................................... 232
Recovering a copy pair configuration definition file (takeback) ......................................... 236
Alert settings and volume switching .............................................................................. 236
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