HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.6.0-00 User Guide

Creating and managing workflows ........................................................................................... 181
About workflows .............................................................................................................. 181
Saving workflows ............................................................................................................. 181
Viewing a list of workflows ................................................................................................ 182
Editing workflows ............................................................................................................. 182
Deleting workflows ........................................................................................................... 183
Managing copy pair configuration definitions ............................................................................ 184
About editing copy pair configuration definitions .................................................................. 184
Prerequisites for changing copy pair configuration (mainframe systems) ............................ 185
Relationship between managed resources and memory heap size .................................... 185
Adding copy pairs (completed workflow) ............................................................................ 186
Editing copy groups by associating new pair groups ............................................................. 186
Conditions for copy types to be displayed (open systems) ............................................... 187
Conditions for copy types to be displayed (mainframe systems) ........................................ 188
Editing copy groups by associating new copy pairs .............................................................. 189
Editing copy groups by setting copy type ............................................................................ 190
Editing copy group settings ................................................................................................ 191
About inheritance of copy group configuration options from BCM .................................... 192
Copy group settings options (mainframe) ...................................................................... 192
Editing a path group ID ..................................................................................................... 194
Deleting copy groups ........................................................................................................ 194
Deleting copy pairs from copy groups ................................................................................. 196
Importing existing configuration definition files ..................................................................... 197
Modifying imported configuration definition files .................................................................. 197
Performing pair operations ....................................................................................................... 198
About copy pair operations ............................................................................................... 198
Option items for copy pair operations (open systems) ..................................................... 198
Option items for copy pair operations (mainframe systems) ............................................. 201
Details of copy pair operation options (mainframe systems) ............................................. 204
When performing operations on EXCTGs (mainframe systems) ......................................... 211
About copy pair status ...................................................................................................... 211
Copy pair status categories ......................................................................................... 212
Conditions for determining copy pair status ................................................................... 212
About copy pair states ...................................................................................................... 218
Correspondence between copy pair states and the copy pair statuses in prerequisite
products ................................................................................................................... 218
Changing copy pair status ................................................................................................ 222
About changing copy pair status ................................................................................. 223
Pair status transitions (when the target is a copy group) ................................................... 224
Pair status transitions (when the target is a single or multiple copy pairs) ........................... 228
Supported operations for copy groups and copy pairs (mainframe systems) ....................... 231
About Change Pair Status Wizard ................................................................................ 232
Change pair status workflow ....................................................................................... 233
Launching the Change Pair Status Wizard ..................................................................... 233
Changing the copy pair status for each copy pair .......................................................... 234
Changing the copy pair status for each copy group or container ..................................... 235
Changing the copy pair status for multiple copy pairs (batch operation) ............................ 237
Confirming copy status during task execution ....................................................................... 238
Advanced pair operations and recovery scenarios ................................................................ 239
Takeover operation .................................................................................................... 240
Swap operation ......................................................................................................... 241
Force-split operation ................................................................................................... 241
Takeover-recovery operations (resync and recreate) ........................................................ 241
Advanced recovery use cases ...................................................................................... 242
Recovering a copy pair configuration definition file (takeback) ......................................... 246
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