HP XP7 Continuous Access Journal for Mainframe Systems User Guide (TK911-96001)

2 Requirements and specifications
This chapter provides system requirements for Continuous Access Journal Z.
System requirements
Continuous Access Journal Z operations are performed from the primary system to the secondary
system, which contain the Cnt Ac-J Z P-VOLs, S-VOLs, and master and restore journal volumes.
Copy operations are carried out via the data path.
General requirements for these and all Cnt Ac-J Z components are listed below.
Table 1 General system requirements
RequirementItem
XP7 can be paired with the following:Supported storage systems
• XP7 (80-01-01-xx/xx or later)
• P9500 (70-06-xx-xx/xx or later)
• XP24000/XP20000 Disk Array (60-08-4x-xx/xx or later)
Two—one at the local site, one at the remote site.Number of storage systems
A maximum of four XP7 systems can be used at each site, and any combination
— from one to four storage systems on one or both sites — can be used:
Four remote Cnt Ac-J, Cnt Ac-J Z, and Cnt Ac-S systems can be set per primary
system.
Maximum number of secondary
systems allowed (System)
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