10.5 HP StoreVirtual Storage Remote Copy User Guide (AX696-96247, March 2013)

Deleting the remote snapshot schedule......................................................................................26
Failover and failback using Remote Copy..................................................................................26
Planning failover................................................................................................................26
Using the Volume Failover/Failback Wizard...............................................................................27
Converting a primary volume to a remote volume...................................................................27
Using failover to a remote volume........................................................................................28
Resuming production after failover............................................................................................28
Synchronizing data after failover..........................................................................................28
Example scenario..........................................................................................................29
Returning operations to original primary site..........................................................................29
Synchronizing the data between the acting primary volume and the original primary
volume........................................................................................................................29
Creating a new primary volume at the original production site............................................30
Setting up a new production site..........................................................................................30
Making the backup site into the new production site...............................................................30
Rolling back primary and remote volumes..................................................................................30
Rolling back a primary volume............................................................................................30
Rolling back a remote volume..............................................................................................31
Using remote snapshots for data migration and data mining........................................................31
Creating a split mirror........................................................................................................31
Disassociating remote management groups................................................................................32
3 Sample Remote Copy configurations...........................................................33
Using Remote Copy for business continuance.............................................................................33
Achieving high availability..................................................................................................33
Configuration for high availability........................................................................................33
How this configuration works for high availability...................................................................34
Best practices....................................................................................................................36
Remote snapshots with volume replication.........................................................................36
Example configuration...................................................................................................36
How it works...........................................................................................................36
Achieving affordable disaster recovery.................................................................................37
Configuration for affordable disaster recovery........................................................................37
How this works for affordable disaster recovery.....................................................................38
Best practices....................................................................................................................40
Select an optimum recurrence schedule. ..........................................................................40
Use remote snapshots in conjunction with local, synchronous volume replication....................40
Example configuration..............................................................................................40
Using Remote Copy for off-site backup and recovery...................................................................40
Achieving off-site backup....................................................................................................40
Configuration for off-site backup and recovery.......................................................................41
Configuration diagram...................................................................................................41
How this configuration works for off-site backup.....................................................................41
Best practices...............................................................................................................41
Example configuration...................................................................................................42
Achieving nondestructive rollback.........................................................................................42
Configuration for nondestructive rollback...............................................................................42
How this configuration works for nondestructive rollback.........................................................43
Best practices....................................................................................................................45
Roll back the primary snapshot and keep the remote snapshots as a backup.........................45
Using Remote Copy for data migration or cloning.......................................................................45
Achieving data migration....................................................................................................45
Configuration for data migration..........................................................................................46
How this configuration works for data migration....................................................................46
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