Document Outline

• HP XP P9000 Business Copy User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Business Copy overview
  • How Business Copy works
  • Hardware and software components
    • Volume pairs (primary volumes and secondary volumes)
      • Cascaded pairs
    • Remote Web Console GUI
    • RAID Manager and consistency groups
  • Initial and update copy operations
    • Initial copy
    • Update copy
• 2 Requirements and planning
  • System requirements
  • License capacity requirements
  • Planning pair volumes
    • Planning number of pairs
      • Calculating the number of differential tables and pair tables
      • Calculating maximum number of pairs
    • Organizing volumes into P-VOLs and S-VOLs
  • Planning for performance
  • Consistency group pair-split at a specific time
    • The consistency group pair-split for shared volumes
      • Requirements, restrictions, and recommendations for shared volumes
      • Consistency group pair-split and supported pair statuses
• 3 Sharing Business Copy volumes
  • Cache Residency
  • Fast Snap and Snapshot
  • Data Retention
    • Access attributes and Business Copy operations
    • Business Copy pair statuses and access attribute settings
  • Thin Provisioning and Smart Tiers
  • External Storage Access Manager
  • LUN Manager
  • Open Volume Management
  • Resource Partition
  • Continuous Access Synchronous
  • Continuous Access Journal
    • Sharing volumes in 3-Cnt Ac-J data center configurations
      • Sharing volumes in a 3-Cnt Ac-J DC multi-target configuration
      • Sharing volumes in 3-Cnt Ac-J DC delta resync (multi-target) configuration
      • Sharing volumes in a 3-Cnt Ac-J DC cascade configuration
      • Sharing volumes in a 3-Cnt Ac-J DC delta resync (cascade) configuration
    • Sharing volumes in 3-Cnt Ac-J/Cnt Ac-S data center configurations
      • Sharing volumes in 3-Cnt Ac-J/Cnt Ac-S DC multi-target and delta resync configurations
      • Sharing volumes in a 3-Cnt Ac-S/Cnt Ac-J DC cascade configuration
  • External Storage
  • Auto LUN
• 4 Performing configuration operations
  • Configuration workflow
  • Setting up primary and secondary volumes
  • Reserving secondary volumes
  • System options that affect performance
    • Setting performance options
• 5 Performing pair operations
  • Pair operations workflow
  • Check pair status
  • Pair creation
    • Prerequisite information for creating pairs
    • On creating L1 and L2 pairs with different topologies
    • Creating pairs
  • Suspending pair creation
  • Pair split
    • Types of split operations
    • Prerequisite information for splitting pairs
    • PSUS, performance, and SOM 459
    • Splitting pairs
    • Splitting pairs in a consistency group using consistency group pair-split workflow
  • Pair resynchronization
    • Types of resync operations
    • Prerequisite information for resynchronizing
    • Resynchronizing pairs
  • Pair deletion
    • Prerequisite information for deleting pairs
    • Deleting pairs
• 6 Monitoring and maintaining the system
  • Monitoring the system
    • Monitoring pair activity, status
      • Pair status definitions
      • RAID Manager pair status names
      • Status, pair operations permitted
      • Status for L1, L2 pairs and operations permitted
      • Status of unaffected S-VOLs, operations permitted
    • Monitoring pair, volume details
    • Monitoring synchronous rates
    • Monitoring consistency groups
    • Monitoring reserve volumes
    • Monitoring a pair’s operation history
  • Maintaining the system
    • Removing reserve attribute from a volume
    • Pair operations during system, device maintenance
• 7 Troubleshooting
  • Business Copy Troubleshooting
    • Operation and display troubleshooting
    • Troubleshooting pinned tracks
    • Troubleshooting extended copy times
  • Troubleshooting with RAID Manager
    • Troubleshooting the consistency group pair-split
• 8 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Subscription service
    • Documentation feedback
  • Related information
    • HP websites
  • Conventions for storage capacity values
  • Typographic conventions
• A Interface support for BC operations and options
  • Operations supported by Remote Web Console, RAID Manager
  • Consistency group operations supported by Remote Web Console, RAID Manager
• 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
    • Select Pair Configuration window
    • Select Primary Volumes window
    • Select Secondary Volumes window
    • Confirm window
  • Split Pairs wizard
    • Split Pairs window
    • Confirm window
  • Resync Pairs wizard
    • Resync Pairs window
    • Confirm window
  • Suspend Pairs window
  • Delete Pairs window
  • Edit Mirror Units dialog box
  • Change Options dialog box
  • Add Reserve Volumes Wizard
    • Add Reserve Volumes window
    • Confirm window
  • Remove Reserve Volumes window
  • Edit Local Replica Option wizard
    • Edit Local Replica Option window
    • Confirm window
• C Configuration operations (secondary window)
  • Configuration workflow
  • Setting up primary and secondary volumes
  • Reserving S-VOLs
  • Reserving a consistency group
  • Setting performance options
• D Pair operations (secondary window)
  • Pair operations workflow
  • Check pair status
  • Creating L1 and/or L2 pairs
  • Splitting pairs, creating and splitting pairs
    • Splitting consistency group pairs with consistency group pair-split
  • Suspending pair creation
  • Resynchronizing pairs
  • Deleting pairs
• E Monitoring and maintaining the system (secondary window)
  • Monitoring the system (secondary window)
    • Monitoring pair activity, status (secondary window)
      • Pair status definitions (secondary window)
    • Status, pair operations permitted (secondary window)
    • Reviewing pair, volume details
    • Reviewing S-VOL path information
    • Reviewing pair, license information
    • Reviewing a pair’s operation history
  • Maintaining the system (secondary window)
    • Removing reserve attribute from a volume
• F Business Copy GUI reference (secondary window)
  • Pair Operation window
    • Main components
    • Volume list
    • Preview list
    • Pair Operation command menu
    • Display Filter dialog box
  • History window
  • Option window
• Glossary
• Index