About virtual command devices – HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software User Manual

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P9000 RAID Manager

Description

Change Pair Status Wiz-
ard

Option

Command

Option

Operation

n/a

1.

pairsplit -R

2.

pairsplit -S

3.

paircreate

Note: Options in
Option column apply to

paircreate

only.

Recovers the P-VOL and S-VOL to
the Pair(PAIR) status when the P-VOL
is in the Simplex(SMPL) status and
the S-VOL is in the Split(SSWS)
status.

None

takeover-re-
covery (re-
create)

-c size

Copy Pace

-f fence

[CTGID]

where

fence

= "data",

"status",

"never",

"async"

Fence Level

-jp id

JNLG ID(P)

-js id

JNLG ID(S)

-nocopy

No Copy

Monitoring and managing storage systems using virtual
command devices

As an alternative to using P9000 RAID Manager command devices, you can also issue commands
to storage systems over the LAN connection using virtual command devices.

NOTE:

As of 7.1.0, Replication Manager only supports monitoring and managing copy pair configuration
definitions that use virtual command devices. You cannot set up such a configuration from within
Replication Manager.

This module includes the following topics:

About virtual command devices

, page 235

Prerequisites for virtual command device configurations

, page 237

Setting up an SVP as a virtual command device

, page 238

Using a Virtual Command Device server

, page 239

Performing user authentication for replica operations

, page 240

About virtual command devices

Command devices are used to send P9000 RAID Manager commands between the pair management
server and a storage system. Command devices use the FC link (known as an in-band connection).

Virtual command devices allow you to perform the same operations using the LAN (known as an
out-of-band connection). This configuration uses either the Service Processor (SVP) of the storage
system, or a dedicated P9000 RAID Manager server (known as a Virtual Command Device server).

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