HP P9000 for Compatible FlashCopy Mirroring User Guide (AV400-96388, October 2011)

Contents
1 About Compatible FlashCopy operations.......................................................6
How Compatible FlashCopy works.............................................................................................6
Establishing a Compatible FlashCopy relationship.........................................................................6
Copy modes............................................................................................................................7
Copying by volume...................................................................................................................9
Copying by dataset..................................................................................................................9
Using Consistency Groups for Dataset Copies that Span Volumes.................................................10
Incremental FlashCopy function.................................................................................................11
Reverse Restore function...........................................................................................................12
Fast Reverse Restore function....................................................................................................13
FlashCopy to PPRC Primary Volume function...............................................................................14
Comparison of Results of Cnt Ac-S Z Pair operations...............................................................17
Remote FlashCopy function......................................................................................................17
FlashCopy to Cnt Ac-J Z Primary Volume function........................................................................19
Releasing Compatible FlashCopy relationships...........................................................................19
Interoperability With Other products and functions......................................................................20
Using Compatible FlashCopy with Business Copy Z................................................................21
Using Compatible FlashCopy with Continuous Access Synchronous Z.......................................22
Using Compatible FlashCopy with Continuous Access Journal Z...............................................26
Using Compatible FlashCopy with Concurrent Copy or Compatible XRC...................................27
Optimization of Volumes..........................................................................................................28
2 Preparing for Compatible FlashCopy operations...........................................29
Requirements of Compatible FlashCopy.....................................................................................29
Calculating the maximum number of Compatible FlashCopy relationships......................................29
Selecting Prior operation.........................................................................................................34
FC Z Slower Copy1 option..................................................................................................35
FC Slower Z Copy2 Option.................................................................................................35
Cautions on turning off the power while using Compatible FlashCopy...........................................36
Installing and uninstalling Compatible FlashCopy or Compatible FlashCopy SE..............................36
Installing Compatible FlashCopy Compatible FlashCopy SE.....................................................36
Uninstalling Compatible FlashCopy or Compatible FlashCopy SE.............................................37
Requirements of the license capacity.........................................................................................37
License capacity of Compatible FlashCopy............................................................................38
License capacity of Compatible FlashCopy SE.......................................................................38
Cautions when TSE-VOL is used................................................................................................38
3 Performing Compatible FlashCopy operations .............................................39
Commands for Compatible FlashCopy operations.......................................................................39
Setting options.......................................................................................................................40
Establishing Compatible FlashCopy relationships........................................................................40
Establishing Compatible FlashCopy relationships by Volumes using TSO command....................40
Establishing Compatible FlashCopy relationships by volumes using DFSMSdss command............43
Establishing Compatible FlashCopy relationships by volumes using ICKDSF command................46
Creating compatible FlashCopy pairs by using incremental FlashCopy (Restore): FLASHCPY
ESTABLISH....................................................................................................................48
Creating Compatible FlashCopy pairs by using incremental FlashCopy (Reverse Restore):
FLASHCPY ESTABLISH....................................................................................................49
Creating Compatible FlashCopy pairs by using incremental FlashCopy (Fast Reverse Restore):
FLASHCPY ESTABLISH....................................................................................................49
Establishing Compatible FlashCopy relationships by volumes using ANTRQST macro command....50
Establishing Compatible FlashCopy relationships by extents using TSO command.......................52
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