Document Outline

• HP XP P9000 Fast Snap User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Overview of Fast Snap
  • Fast Snap
  • Components of Fast Snap
    • Components of volumes
    • Consistency groups
    • Snapshot groups
    • Fast Snap
    • Thin Provisioning
    • RAID Manager
  • How Fast Snap works
    • Fast Snap Pools
    • V-VOLs
      • Releasing V-VOL definitions
    • Fast Snap pairs
    • Storing snapshot data for a group workflow
    • Snapshot data storage methods
      • Differences in methods for storing snapshots depending on volumes
      • CAW storage method workflow
      • COW storage method workflow
    • Restoring Fast Snap pairs
    • FS pair status and deleting snapshot data
    • Deleting Fast Snap pairs
  • Pair status
  • Copy threshold option
  • Interoperability with other software applications
    • Data Retention
    • Auto LUN
    • Business Copy
    • Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous Access Journal
      • Using Fast Snap in a 3DC multi-target configuration
    • Thin Provisioning
    • Resource Partition
  • About acronyms and abbreviations for software applications
• 2 Planning and design
  • System requirements
    • Requirements for Fast Snap
      • Installing Fast Snap workflow
      • The workflow for removing Fast Snap
    • Requirements for licensed capacity
    • Fast Snap shared memory requirements
    • Removing shared memory
    • Fast Snap volume requirements
    • Requirements for consistency groups
    • Requirements for snapshot groups
  • Requirements for Fast Snap tasks
    • Calculating the number of virtual volumes that the storage system can create
    • Calculating the number of Fast Snap pairs
      • Calculating the maximum number of pairs based on differential tables
      • Calculating the number of Fast Snap pairs based on pair tables
      • Calculating the number of Fast Snap pairs based on the snapshot estimated manageable capacity
      • Calculating the number of Fast Snap pairs based on the number of cache management devices
    • Calculating the number of cache management devices
      • Fast Snap cache management device requirements
    • Effects on I/O performance of the storage system
    • Calculating pool capacity
      • Pool capacity calculations
    • Using external volumes as pool-VOLs
• 3 Performing configuration tasks
  • Configuration tasks workflow
  • Pool volumes with system area
  • Creating Fast Snap data pools
  • Creating V-VOLs
    • Editing the V-VOL SSID
    • Changing the V-VOL settings
    • Removing the V-VOL to be registered
  • On setting up a command device
• 4 Pair tasks
  • Creating Fast Snap pairs
    • Fast Snap pair creation workflow using Remote Web Console
  • Splitting pairs
    • Using the At-Time Snapshot function to acquire snapshot data for a consistency group
    • At-Time Snapshot when Fast Snap volume shared with Cnt Ac-J and Cnt Ac-S
      • Notes on using Fast Snap P-VOLs as Continuous Access Synchronous or Continuous Access Journal pair volumes
    • Notes on acquiring snapshot data
  • Restoring pairs
  • Deleting snapshot data
  • Deleting FS pairs
• 5 Monitoring and maintenance
  • Monitoring pair information
    • Viewing the number of pairs and a list of pairs
      • Pair status definitions
    • Monitoring pair properties
    • Monitoring synchronous rates
  • Monitoring consistency groups
    • Viewing the number of consistency groups
    • Viewing a list of consistency groups
    • Viewing consistency group properties
  • Monitoring pair operation history
    • Monitoring pair operation history using secondary window
  • Monitoring licensed capacity
  • Monitoring the number of cache management devices
  • Managing pools and V-VOLs
    • Monitoring pool information
    • Viewing formatted pool capacity
    • Increasing pool capacity
    • Changing pool threshold
    • Changing pool names
    • Recovering pools
    • Deleting pools
    • Changing V-VOL names
    • Deleting V-VOLs
  • Maintenance requirements
    • Replacing the microcode offline
    • Powering-off
• 6 Troubleshooting
  • General troubleshooting
    • The workflow for recovering blocked pools workflow
    • The workflow for processing pool-related SIMs
    • Completing SIMs
    • Completing warning SIMs before depletion of cache management devices
• 7 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Subscription service
    • Documentation feedback
  • Related information
    • HP websites
  • Conventions for storage capacity values
  • Typographic conventions
• A RAID Manager command reference
  • Statuses required for RAID Manager tasks
    • RAID Manager pair status names
  • Troubleshooting with RAID Manager
• B Fast Snap GUI reference
  • Replications window
  • Local Replications window
  • View Pair Properties window
  • View Pair Synchronous Rate window
  • View Histories window
  • Consistency Group Properties window
  • Create Pair wizard
    • Create Pair window
    • Select Primary Volumes window
    • Select Pool window
    • Select Secondary Volumes window
    • Confirm window
  • Split Pairs wizard
    • Split Pairs window
    • Confirm window
  • Resync Pairs wizard
    • Resync pairs window
    • Confirm window
  • Delete Pairs window
  • Edit Local Replica Option wizard
    • Edit Local Replica Option window
    • Confirm window
• Glossary
• index