HP XP P9000 Business Copy User Guide (AV400-96483, August 2012)

Check pair status ...................................................................................................................35
Pair creation .........................................................................................................................35
Prerequisite information for creating pairs..............................................................................36
BC pair configuration in Create Pair wizard......................................................................36
Creating pairs...................................................................................................................38
Suspending pair creation.........................................................................................................41
Pair split ...............................................................................................................................42
Types of split operations......................................................................................................42
Prerequisite information for splitting pairs..............................................................................43
PSUS, performance, and SOM 459......................................................................................43
Splitting pairs....................................................................................................................43
Running the consistency group pair-split ...............................................................................44
Pair resynchronization.............................................................................................................44
Types of resync operation....................................................................................................45
Prerequisite information for resynchronizing ..........................................................................45
Restrictions for Reverse Copy and Quick Restore................................................................46
Resynchronizing pairs.........................................................................................................46
Pair deletion..........................................................................................................................47
Prerequisite information for deleting pairs..............................................................................47
Deleting pairs....................................................................................................................48
6 Monitoring and maintaining the system.......................................................49
Monitoring the system ............................................................................................................49
Monitoring pair activity, status ............................................................................................49
Pair status definitions.....................................................................................................49
RAID Manager pair status names ...................................................................................50
Status, pair operations permitted ....................................................................................51
Status for L1, L2 pairs and operations permitted ...............................................................51
Status of unaffected S-VOLs, operations permitted .............................................................53
Monitoring pair, volume details...........................................................................................53
Monitoring synchronous rates..............................................................................................53
Monitoring consistency groups.............................................................................................54
Monitoring reserve volumes.................................................................................................54
Monitoring a pair’s operation history ..................................................................................54
Maintaining the system ...........................................................................................................55
Removing reserve attribute from a volume .............................................................................55
Pair operations during system, device maintenance.................................................................56
7 Troubleshooting........................................................................................57
General troubleshooting..........................................................................................................57
Troubleshooting with RAID Manager.........................................................................................57
Troubleshooting the consistency group split operation ............................................................65
8 Support and other resources......................................................................66
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................66
Subscription service............................................................................................................66
Documentation feedback....................................................................................................66
Related information.................................................................................................................66
HP websites......................................................................................................................67
Conventions for storage capacity values....................................................................................67
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................67
A Interface support for Business Copy operations and options...........................69
Operations supported by Remote Web Console, RAID Manager...................................................69
Consistency group operations supported by Remote Web Console, RAID Manager.........................70
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