Pair status and time required for pairresync, Suspend pair operation – HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console Software User Manual

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URz P-VOL

SIz T-VOL

URz S-VOL

SIz S-VOL

ShadowImage

for z/OS

®

Universal

Replicator

for z/OS

®

Legend:

SIz S-VOL:
SIz T-VOL:
URz P-VOL:
URz S-VOL:

SIz source volume
SIz target volume
URz primary data volume
URz secondary data volume

Figure 13 Siz S-VOL Forming Pair with External T-VOL and Shared as URz S-VOL

Pair Status and Time Required for Pairresync

The pairresync operation can be performed on a split pair or a suspended pair. This section describes

the relation between the pair status and the time required for pairresync operations.

Resync for split pair: When a normal/quick resync operation is performed on a split pair, the

XP1024/XP128/XP12000/XP10000/SVS 200 copies all differential data from the S-VOL to

the T-VOL. When a reverse copy or quick restore operation is performed on a split pair, the

XP1024/XP128/XP12000/XP10000/SVS 200 copies all differential data from the T-VOL to

the S-VOL. This ensures that the S-VOL and T-VOL are properly re-synchronized in the desired

direction, and also greatly reduces the time needed to re-synchronize the pair.

Resync for suspended pair: When a normal/quick resync operation is performed on a suspended

pair, the XP1024/XP128/XP12000/XP10000/SVS 200 copies all data on the S-VOL to the

T-VOL, since all S-VOL tracks were flagged as differential data when the pair was suspended.

Reverse resync pair and quick restore operations cannot be performed on suspended pairs. The

normal resync operation for suspended pairs is equivalent to and takes as long as the Siz initial

copy operation. If you perform the quick pairresync operation on the suspended pairs, the update

copy operation will be performed and all data will be copied to the S-VOL. In this case, the

update copy operation will take much longer than the initial copy operation.

CAUTION:

When re-synchronizing pairs, you can select the pace for the resync operation(s): slower, medium, and

faster. The slower pace minimizes the impact of Siz operations on storage system I/O performance,

while the faster pace resynchronizes the pair(s) as quickly as possible. The quick resync option provides

the fastest normal resync operation, but it may affect the storage system I/O performance.

NOTE:

The CESTPAIR and PPRCOPY ESTPAIR commands allow you to re-synchronize split Siz volume

pairs. See

Chapter 5

on page 99 for further information on using PPRC commands to perform

Siz operations on the storage system.

After a Siz reverse copy or quick restore operation is performed, make sure that the pair status

changes to

duplex

before performing a TCz resume pair operation. If you perform the TCz resume

pair operation before the pair status changes to

duplex

, the command (resume pair operation)

will be rejected.

Suspend Pair Operation

The Siz suspend pair operation suspends the update copy operations to the T-VOL of the pair. A Siz

pair can be suspended by the user at any time. When a Siz pair is suspended, the storage system

stops performing update copy operations to the T-VOL, continues accepting write I/O operations to the

S-VOL, and marks the entire S-VOL track as differential data. When a resync operation is performed on

a suspended pair, the entire S-VOL is copied to the T-VOL. Reverse copy and quick restore cannot be

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