HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.3.1-00 User Guide

Defining copy pairs and pair groups ......................................................................................... 143
About copy pairs ............................................................................................................. 143
Create copy pair workflow ................................................................................................ 144
About copy pair configuration definitions ............................................................................ 145
About configuration definition file formats ..................................................................... 146
About creating copy pair configuration definitions ................................................................ 146
Copy pair configuration conditions .............................................................................. 147
Prerequisites for pair configuration (mainframe systems) .................................................. 148
Storage system conditions for pair configuration definition ............................................... 148
Conditions for volume selection ................................................................................... 148
Conditions for primary volumes that can be added (open systems) .................................. 148
Conditions for primary volumes that can be added (mainframe systems) ........................... 149
Conditions for secondary volumes that can be added (open systems) .............................. 149
Conditions for secondary volumes that can be added (mainframe systems) ...................... 149
Creating pairs and pair groups .......................................................................................... 150
Editing pair names ........................................................................................................... 151
About filtering candidate volumes ....................................................................................... 152
Conditions affecting displayed storage system information ............................................... 152
Selecting multiple candidate volumes .................................................................................. 153
About volume capacity checking ........................................................................................ 153
Defining copy groups .............................................................................................................. 153
About copy groups ........................................................................................................... 153
Copy group requirements for pair configuration (mainframe systems) ................................ 154
About assigning CTGID/JNLGID for copy pairs .................................................................... 154
Conditions for creating local copy pairs with the CTG option ........................................... 154
Configuring open and mainframe consistency groups ........................................................... 155
About HORCM instances .................................................................................................. 155
Creating copy groups ....................................................................................................... 156
Associating pair groups with copy groups ........................................................................... 157
Creating a container with multiple copy groups (mainframe systems) ............................................. 158
Supported copy group and container combinations .............................................................. 158
Defining multi-target and cascade configurations ........................................................................ 159
About multi target and cascade copy pair configurations ...................................................... 159
Copy type requirements for pair configuration definitions ................................................ 160
Permitted topologies for cascade and multi-target configurations ...................................... 161
About delta resync ........................................................................................................... 161
Limitations when performing 3DC configuration pair operations (mainframe systems) .......... 162
Defining copy groups in a multi-target or cascade configuration ............................................. 162
Creating a 3DC multi-target configuration ........................................................................... 162
Scheduling and managing tasks ............................................................................................... 163
About tasks ..................................................................................................................... 163
About task statuses ........................................................................................................... 164
About task types (open systems) ......................................................................................... 164
About task types (mainframe systems) .................................................................................. 165
Scheduling tasks .............................................................................................................. 166
Modifying task execution schedule ............................................................................... 166
Editing tasks .............................................................................................................. 166
Viewing a list of tasks ....................................................................................................... 168
Canceling tasks ............................................................................................................... 168
Deleting tasks .................................................................................................................. 168
Distributing copy group definitions (mainframe) .......................................................................... 169
About distributing copy group definitions ............................................................................. 169
Example of copy group definition distribution scenario .................................................... 170
Prerequisites for distribution destination hosts (copy group definitions) ............................... 170
Conditions for changing copy group distribution primary host .......................................... 170
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