Creating and managing workflows, About workflows, Saving workflows – HP XP Racks User Manual
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Creating and managing workflows
This module describes tasks for creating and managing workflows:
About workflows
A workflow is a series of tasks associated with the creation of a copy pair or copy group. Workflows
are created automatically when you set up a copy pair or copy group using the Pair Configuration
Wizard. Workflows are managed for all the copy groups that constitute multi-target configurations
or cascade configurations.
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For situations such as when storage system resources and host applications are managed by different
administrators, the work status can be saved as a workflow at any point during copy pair creation
and passed from one administrator to the next. In this case, a new task is generated when the wizard
finishes, and the saved workflow is overwritten.
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Saving workflows
A copy pair configuration definition may need to be saved under the following circumstances:
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The tasks performed in the wizard might be divided between a storage system administrator who
manages the storage system resources and an application server administrator who sets up the
allocated resources according to the application. In this scenario, the storage system administrator
can save the wizard current settings as a workflow so that the application server administrator
can inherit the copy pair list that has been created.
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When creating a copy pair configuration definition, it may be necessary to stop the wizard before
the copy pair configuration definition is completed. In this scenario, the incomplete definition can
be temporarily saved as a workflow, and then worked on again when the wizard is restarted.
If you want to temporarily save the configuration definition, click Save on any wizard page. When
the Save Workflow dialog box appears, specify a workflow name, and then close the wizard.
To restart the wizard to work on a saved workflow, from the Explorer menu, choose Tasks and then
Workflows. Next, select the check box of the workflow where you want to restart the wizard, and
then click Edit Workflow.
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