HP P9000 Snapshot User Guide (AV400-96394, October 2011)

2 Planning and design

This chapter describes requirements for setting up and using Snapshot, as well as data pool sizing

information.

System requirements

Many of the requirements here are augmented with recommendations and restrictions later in this

chapter.

Table 1 System Requirements

RequirementItem

Business Copy is required to operate Snapshot. All P9500 hardware, microcode, and software

required for Business Copy operations must be installed and enabled.

Software

Capacity for Snapshot is part of the licensed capacity for Business Copy. Insure that the licensed

capacity for Business Copy is more than the combined capacity needed for both products.

License capacity

The number of products using a volume does not increase the amount of licensed capacity that

must be purchased. Only the capacity of the volume counts toward licensed capacity.

• Required

Snapshot: 716.8 MB (RACK model is supported up to Snapshot.)

Snapshot Extension1: 4,096 MB (Snapshot/VFS1 + 3379.2 MB)

Shared memory

• P9500 can handle a 7.15 TB database with 7 generations.

• Verify that your system has the appropriate Snapshot V-VOL management area installed by

HP Technical Support.

• Memory for the V-VOL management area and Thin Provisioning cannot be shared.

RAID Manager

• Required for performing Snapshot pair operations.

• RAID Manager requires one volume to be used as a command device. See the HP P9000

RAID Manager Reference Guide for setup information.

P-VOL, V-VOL, and volumes must be logical volumes (LDEV)Volume