HP XP7 Business Continuity Manager Installation Guide (TK954-96002)

1 Overview of HP XP7 for Business Continuity Manager
This chapter explains the provided licenses and prerequisites for using Business Continuity Manager.
For more detailed information about Business Continuity Manager, see the HP XP7 for Business
Continuity Manager User Guide. In this document, Business Continuity Manager is also called BC
Manager.
Unless otherwise specified, the term storage system in this guide refers to the following disk arrays:
• HP XP24000 Disk Array
• HP XP20000 Disk Array
• HP XP12000 Disk Array
• HP XP10000 Disk Array
• HP XP P9500 Disk Array
• HP XP7 Storage
The examples in this guide show a typical display from the appropriate z/OS interface, for example,
ISPF, console/SYSLOG, command line, and so on. Depending on the specific 3270 terminal
emulation software used, you might see minor differences from the examples as far as formatting
is concerned. However, the content should be displayed.
Business Continuity Manager can control the following replication products:
• BC — Business Copy Z/Hitachi ShadowImage for Mainframe (SI)
• CA or Cnt Ac-S Z — Continuous Access Synchronous Z/Hitachi TrueCopy for Mainframe (TC)
• CAJ or Cnt Ac-J Z — Continuous Access Journal Z/Hitachi Universal Replicator for Mainframe
(UR)
• TCA or CAA — Hitachi TrueCopy Asynchronous for Mainframe (TCA)
NOTE: Hitachi TrueCopy Asynchronous (TCA) is supported on some HP XP Disk Arrays. TCA is
not supported on XP P9500, XP20000, or XP24000 Disk Arrays. Business Continuity Manager
can be used with XP7, XP P9500, and all of the other XP disk arrays listed above. The XP disk
array copy products can be configured and controlled using the XP7 version of BCM. With the
exception of TrueCopy Asynchronous, the HP product names are used in this manual. For
compatibility with existing implementations on XP disk arrays, the Hitachi abbreviations shown in
parenthesis are accepted by the user interface. The graphics in this manual show the HP
abbreviations, but your system may show the Hitachi abbreviations.
Licenses provided for Business Continuity Manager
To use Business Continuity Manager, you need to install the appropriate license.
There are two types of licenses for Business Continuity Manager: a license for using basic functions,
and a license for the optional CAJ 4x4 Extended CTG feature. . When the license for using basic
functions is installed, you can define and manage:
• BC Z — HP Business Copy Z
• Cnt Ac-S Z — HP Continuous Access Synchronous Z
• Cnt Ac-J Z — HP Continuous Access Journal Z
• TCA — Hitachi TrueCopy Asynchronous for Mainframe
To use optional functions, install the optional license.
After a license key is installed in the license information dataset,functions corresponding to the
license you installed become available.
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