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
These sections describe the configurations and supported BC operations.
For more information about these configurations, see the HP XP P9000 Continuous Access Journal
User Guide.
Sharing volumes in 3-Cnt Ac-J/Cnt Ac-S DC multi-target and delta resync configurations
You can share BC P-VOL with Cnt Ac-S and Cnt Ac-J volumes at the intermediate and remote sites
in 3DC multi-target and delta resync configurations, as shown in the following figure.
The BC operations that you can perform depend on the pair status of the other pairs. The following
tables show the supported operations.
Table 4 BC operations at the intermediate site
BC operationsCnt Ac-J delta resync
pair status
Cnt Ac-S
local-intermed.
pair status
Resync -- Quick
Restore
Resync --
Reverse Copy,
Create, Split, Suspend, Delete,
Resync--Normal Copy, Quick Resync
NONOYESHOLDPAIR or
COPY(PD)/COPY
NONOYESHLDEPAIR or
COPY(PD)/COPY
NOYESYESHOLDPSUS/SSWS
NOYESYESHLDEPSUS/SSWS
Table 5 BC operations at the remote site
BC operationsCnt Ac-J delta resync
pair status
Cnt Ac-J
local-remote
pair status
Resync -- Quick
Restore
Resync --
Reverse Copy,
Create, Split, Suspend, Delete,
Resync--Normal Copy, Quick Resync
NONOYESHOLDPAIR or
COPY(PD)/COPY
NOYESYESHOLDPSUS/SSWS
Sharing volumes in a 3-Cnt Ac-S/Cnt Ac-J DC cascade configuration
You can share BC P-VOL with Cnt Ac-S and Cnt Ac-J pairs at the intermediate site in 3DC cascade
configurations, as shown in the following figure.
34 Sharing Business Copy volumes