HP XP P9000 Business Copy User Guide (AV400-96573, July 2013)
Table Of Contents
- HP XP P9000 Business Copy User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Business Copy overview
- 2 Requirements and planning
- 3 Sharing Business Copy volumes
- Cache Residency
- Fast Snap and Snapshot
- Data Retention
- Thin Provisioning and Smart Tiers
- External Storage Access Manager
- LUN Manager
- Open Volume Management
- Resource Partition
- Continuous Access Synchronous
- Continuous Access Journal
- External Storage
- Auto LUN
- 4 Performing configuration operations
- 5 Performing pair operations
- 6 Monitoring and maintaining the system
- 7 Troubleshooting
- 8 Support and other resources
- A Interface support for BC operations and options
- B Business Copy GUI reference
- Replications window
- Local Replications window
- View Pair Properties window
- View Pair Synchronous Rate window
- View Histories window
- Consistency Group Properties window
- Create Pairs wizard
- Split Pairs wizard
- Resync Pairs wizard
- Suspend Pairs window
- Delete Pairs window
- Edit Mirror Units dialog box
- Change Options dialog box
- Add Reserve Volumes Wizard
- Remove Reserve Volumes window
- Edit Local Replica Option wizard
- C Configuration operations (secondary window)
- D Pair operations (secondary window)
- E Monitoring and maintaining the system (secondary window)
- F Business Copy GUI reference (secondary window)
- Glossary
- Index

The following table shows the supported BC operations when the P-VOL is shared with Cnt Ac-J
S-VOL (intermediate or remote site).
BC operationsCnt Ac-J* pair status
Resync -- Reverse Copy,
Quick Restore
Create, Split, Suspend, Delete,
Resync--Normal Copy, Quick Resync
NOYESPAIR or
COPY(PD)/COPY*
YESYESPSUS/SSWS
* Note:
• If the BC P-VOL is shared with the intermediate site’s Cnt Ac-J S-VOL, then check Cnt Ac-J status for the local-intermediate pair.
• If the BC P-VOL is shared with the remote site’s Cnt Ac-J S-VOL, then check Cnt Ac-J status for the local-remote pair.
Sharing volumes in 3-Cnt Ac-J DC delta resync (multi-target) configuration
The following figure shows multi-target with delta resync configurations that include BC volumes.
Figure 2 BC volumes in a delta resync (multi-target) configuration
Supported operations for BC pairs on the local and remote sites (related to the non-delta resync
Cnt Ac-J pairs) are the same as those shown in the tables in “Sharing volumes in a 3-Cnt Ac-J DC
multi-target configuration” (page 29).
Supported operations for BC pairs at the intermediate and remote sites (related to the delta resync
pair), and Cnt Ac-J status requirements, are shown in the following table. They are the same whether
you perform the BC operation at the intermediate or remote site.
BC operationsCnt Ac-J C
2
pair
status
Cnt Ac-J A or B
1
,
pair status
Resync --Reverse Copy,
Quick Restore
Create, Split, Suspend, Delete,
Resync--Normal Copy, Quick Resync
NOYESHOLD or HLDEPAIR,
COPY(PD)/COPY*,
or PSUS/SSWS
1. Local-intermediate pair, or local-remote pair
2. Delta resync pair
30 Sharing Business Copy volumes