HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.6.1-00 User Guide
Changing the copy pair status for multiple copy pairs (batch operation) ............................ 244
Confirming copy status during task execution ....................................................................... 246
Advanced pair operations and recovery scenarios ................................................................ 246
Takeover operation .................................................................................................... 247
Swap operation ......................................................................................................... 248
Force-split operation ................................................................................................... 248
Takeover-recovery operations (resync and recreate) ........................................................ 249
Advanced recovery use cases ...................................................................................... 250
Recovering a copy pair configuration definition file (takeback) ......................................... 253
Alert settings and volume switching .............................................................................. 253
Basic operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands .................................. 254
Conditions for copy pair operations (basic versus advanced) ................................................. 256
Advanced operations and corresponding P9000 RAID Manager commands ........................... 256
Monitoring and managing storage systems using virtual command devices ..................................... 257
About virtual command devices .......................................................................................... 258
Prerequisites for virtual command device configurations ......................................................... 259
Setting up an SVP as a virtual command device .................................................................. 260
Using a Virtual Command Device server .............................................................................. 261
If a virtual command device fails to call the Device Manager Agent ........................................ 262
P9000 RAID Manager response time and virtual command devices ........................................ 262
Performing user authentication for replica operations ............................................................. 263
Monitoring and management of copy groups defined by device group .......................................... 264
About copy groups defined by device group ........................................................................ 264
Prerequisites for copy group configurations defined by device group ....................................... 265
Precautions for replica operations (Application Agent) ........................................................... 265
Unsupported copy group configurations defined by device group ........................................... 267
11 Refreshing management information ............................................... 269
About refreshing management information ................................................................................. 269
Functions for refreshing management information ................................................................. 270
Explorer menu items for refreshing management information ................................................ 270
Refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................................... 271
About refreshing copy pair status ....................................................................................... 271
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (open systems) .......................................................... 272
Refreshing copy pair statuses data flow (mainframe systems) .................................................. 273
Disabling the Device Manager refresh function ..................................................................... 274
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each host ............................................................ 275
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each volume ........................................................ 275
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for each copy group or snapshot group ........................ 276
Refreshing copy pair statuses manually for My Copy Groups .................................................. 276
Refreshing the copy pair status automatically for each information source ................................ 277
Refreshing copy pair status automatically for each pair management server ............................. 277
Refreshing configuration information .......................................................................................... 278
About refreshing configuration information ........................................................................... 278
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in open systems ........................... 280
Data flow when configuration information is refreshed in mainframe systems .................... 281
Refreshing configuration information automatically (using the refresh settings) ........................... 282
Refreshing configuration information manually for each information source .............................. 283
Refreshing configuration information manually for each storage system .................................... 283
12 System monitoring ........................................................................ 285
About system monitoring .......................................................................................................... 285
Monitoring configuration information ......................................................................................... 286
About copy pair configuration checks ................................................................................. 286
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