HP XP7 Provisioning for Open Systems User Guide (H6F56-96009)

Figure 3 Using Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers and Business Copy
ExplanationBusiness Copy S-VOLBusiness Copy P-VOL
Supported.THP V-VOLsTHP V-VOLs
Supported.Normal (ordinary)
volumes*
THP V-VOLs
The Quick Restore function is unavailable.
Supported.THP V-VOLsNormal (ordinary) volumes*
Note, however, that this combination consumes the same
amount of pool capacity as the normal volume.
The Quick Restore function is unavailable.
*Normal volumes include the internal volumes and external volumes that are mapped to the volumes of the external
storage system using External Storage. For more information on external volumes, see the HP XP7 External Storage
for Open and Mainframe Systems User Guide.
You cannot specify a Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers pool-VOL as a Business Copy primary volume
or secondary volume
Auto LUN
You can use Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers in combination with Auto LUN to migrate THP V-VOLs.
The following shows the interaction when the Auto LUN source volume and target volume are also
THP V-VOLs.
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