HP P9000 Business Copy for Mainframe Systems User Guide (AV400-96386, October 2011)

Contents
1 Business Copy Z overview...........................................................................6
Resources that can be executed for each function..........................................................................6
Business Copy Z software..........................................................................................................6
How Business Copy Z works......................................................................................................6
Hardware and software components ..........................................................................................7
Volume pairs (S-VOLs and T-VOLs)..........................................................................................7
Remote Web Console GUI....................................................................................................7
PPRC, Business Continuity Manager, and consistency groups.....................................................7
Initial and update copy operations..............................................................................................8
Initial copy .........................................................................................................................8
Update copy ......................................................................................................................8
2 Requirements and planning.......................................................................10
System requirements................................................................................................................10
License capacity requirements .................................................................................................11
Planning pair volumes.............................................................................................................12
Planning number of pairs....................................................................................................12
Calculating number of differential tables, pair tables..........................................................13
Calculating maximum number of pairs ............................................................................14
Organizing volumes into S-VOLs and T-VOLs.........................................................................14
Planning for performance .......................................................................................................15
System options.......................................................................................................................16
Preparing for Business Continuity Manager, PPRC use..................................................................16
Business Continuity Manager requiring a command device.....................................................16
Business Continuity Manager, PPRC operation commands ......................................................16
3 Sharing Business Copy Z volumes...............................................................18
Virtual LVI..............................................................................................................................18
Cache Residency....................................................................................................................18
Auto LUN .............................................................................................................................18
External Storage ....................................................................................................................18
Continuous Access Synchronous Z.............................................................................................18
Continuous Access Journal Z....................................................................................................19
Continuous Access Synchronous Z and Continuous Access Journal Z.............................................22
Compatible FlashCopy............................................................................................................24
Compatible FlashCopy SE.......................................................................................................24
Compatible XRC.....................................................................................................................24
Concurrent Copy....................................................................................................................24
Resource Partition...................................................................................................................24
Thin Provisioning Z.................................................................................................................25
4 Performing configuration operations............................................................26
Configuration workflow ..........................................................................................................26
Set up source and target volumes..............................................................................................26
Reserve T-VOLs.......................................................................................................................26
Reserving a consistency group..................................................................................................27
Set Host I/O Performance option..............................................................................................28
5 Performing pair operations........................................................................30
Pair operations workflow.........................................................................................................30
Check pair status....................................................................................................................30
Create pairs..........................................................................................................................30
Split and create pairs..............................................................................................................32
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