Document Outline

• P9000 Snapshot User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Overview
  • Snapshot software
  • How Snapshot works
    • Volume pairs — P-VOLs and V-VOLs
    • Data pools
  • Components
  • Licenses and capacity
  • Consistency groups
  • Interfaces for performing Snapshot operations
    • Remote Web Console
    • RAID Manager
  • Pair status
• 2 Planning and design
  • System requirements
  • Data pool requirements and restrictions
  • Planning volumes
    • Planning V-VOLs, data pools
      • Sizing the data pool
  • Number of pairs
    • Calculating maximum pairs based on differential tables
    • Calculating maximum pairs based on V-VOL management area shared memory
    • Calculate maximum pairs based on pair tables
    • Determining maximum pairs allowed on your system
  • Planning for external volumes
• 3 Sharing Snapshot volumes
  • Interoperability with other products and functions
  • Data Retention
  • Auto LUN
  • Business Copy
  • Continuous Access Synchronous or Continuous Access Journal
  • Thin Provisioning
  • Resource Partition
• 4 Installation and configuration
  • Installing and uninstalling Snapshot
  • Configuration workflow
  • Creating data pools
  • Creating V-VOLs
  • On setting up the command device
• 5 Pair operations
  • Pair operations workflow
  • Checking pair status
  • Creating a pair
    • Creating pairs in a consistency group
  • Splitting a pair
  • Resynchronizing a pair
  • Restoring a pair
  • Deleting pairs
    • Deleting multiple pairs related to a port or host group
    • Deleting multiple pairs related to a pool
• 6 Monitoring and maintenance
  • Monitoring the system
    • Monitoring pair status
      • Pair status definitions
      • Statuses required for pair operations
    • Monitoring pair, volume details
    • Monitoring S-VOL path information
    • Monitoring number of pairs, license information
    • Monitoring a pair’s operation history
    • Monitoring pool information
  • Maintaining the system
    • Heavy-workload option
    • Managing pools
      • Increasing pool capacity
      • Recovering pools
      • Changing pool threshold
      • Changing pool name
      • Deleting pools
    • Managing V-VOLs
      • Changing a V-VOL name
      • Deleting V-VOLs
    • Powering-off to change the microcode
      • Powering-off
      • Replacing the microcode offline
• 7 Troubleshooting
  • General troubleshooting
    • Recovering from failure during pairresync -restore
    • Recovering a terminated HP-UX host server
    • Recovering a blocked pool
    • Processing pool-related SIMs
  • Troubleshooting with RAID Manager
• 8 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
  • Action names and RAID Manager commands list
• B Snapshot GUI reference
  • Pair Operation window
    • Volume list
    • Preview List
    • Command menu
  • Display filter dialog box
  • Detail dialog box
  • Pairsplit-S dialog box
  • History window
    • Reference codes
  • Snapshot window
  • Top window when selecting pool
  • Top window when selecting a pool volume group under Pool
  • Create Pools wizard
    • Create Pools window
    • Confirm window
  • Expand Pool wizard
    • Expand Pool window
    • Confirm window
  • Edit Pools wizard
    • Edit Pools window
    • Confirm window
  • Delete Pool wizard
    • Delete Pool window
    • Confirm window
  • Restore Pools window
  • Complete SIMs window
  • Select Pool window
  • Select Pool Volumes window
  • Pool Property window
• Glossary
• Index