HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.5.0-00 User Guide (TB584-96070, July 2013)

Creating and managing workflows ........................................................................................... 180
About workflows .............................................................................................................. 180
Saving workflows ............................................................................................................. 180
Viewing a list of workflows ................................................................................................ 181
Editing workflows ............................................................................................................. 181
Deleting workflows ........................................................................................................... 182
Managing copy pair configuration definitions ............................................................................ 183
About editing copy pair configuration definitions .................................................................. 183
Prerequisites for changing copy pair configuration (mainframe systems) ............................ 184
Relationship between managed resources and memory heap size .................................... 184
Adding copy pairs (completed workflow) ............................................................................ 184
Editing copy groups by associating new pair groups ............................................................. 185
Conditions for copy types to be displayed (open systems) ............................................... 186
Conditions for copy types to be displayed (mainframe systems) ........................................ 187
Editing copy groups by associating new copy pairs .............................................................. 188
Editing copy groups by setting copy type ............................................................................ 189
Editing copy group settings ................................................................................................ 190
About inheritance of copy group configuration options from BCM .................................... 191
Copy group settings options (mainframe) ...................................................................... 191
Deleting copy groups ........................................................................................................ 193
Deleting copy pairs from copy groups ................................................................................. 194
Importing existing configuration definition files ..................................................................... 195
Modifying imported configuration definition files .................................................................. 196
Performing pair operations ....................................................................................................... 197
About copy pair operations ............................................................................................... 197
Option items for copy pair operations (open systems) ..................................................... 197
Option items for copy pair operations (mainframe systems) ............................................. 200
Details of copy pair operation options (mainframe systems) ............................................. 203
When performing operations on EXCTGs (mainframe systems) ......................................... 209
About copy pair status ...................................................................................................... 209
Copy pair status categories ......................................................................................... 210
Conditions for determining copy pair status ................................................................... 210
About copy pair states ...................................................................................................... 216
Correspondence between copy pair states and the copy pair statuses in prerequisite
products ................................................................................................................... 217
Changing copy pair status ................................................................................................ 220
About changing copy pair status ................................................................................. 221
Pair status transitions (when the target is a copy group) ................................................... 222
Pair status transitions (when the target is a single or multiple copy pairs) ........................... 226
Supported operations for copy groups and copy pairs (mainframe systems) ....................... 229
About Change Pair Status Wizard ................................................................................ 231
Change pair status workflow ....................................................................................... 231
Launching the Change Pair Status Wizard ..................................................................... 232
Changing the copy pair status for each copy pair .......................................................... 232
Changing the copy pair status for each copy group or container ..................................... 233
Changing the copy pair status for multiple copy pairs (batch operation) ............................ 235
Confirming copy status during task execution ....................................................................... 237
Advanced pair operations and recovery scenarios ................................................................ 237
Takeover operation .................................................................................................... 238
Swap operation ......................................................................................................... 239
Force-split operation ................................................................................................... 239
Takeover-recovery operations (resync and recreate) ........................................................ 240
Advanced recovery use cases ...................................................................................... 241
Recovering a copy pair configuration definition file (takeback) ......................................... 244
Alert settings and volume switching .............................................................................. 244
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