Monitoring snapshot, Monitoring pair status, Monitoring snapshot -2 – Hitachi MK-97DF8018-00 User Manual

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Monitoring and Maintenance

Hitachi Simple Modular Storage Copy-on-Write SnapShot User’s Guide

Monitoring SnapShot

The SnapShot data pool must have sufficient capacity to handle the

differential data demands placed on it. You must insure that sufficient

capacity is always available for the write workload by closely monitoring the

following:
• Pair status
• Data pool usage

Monitoring Pair Status

To monitor pair status

(Advanced users using CLI, see the Storage Navigator Modular 2 Command

Line Interface (CLI) User’s Guide.)
1. In Navigator 2 GUI, select the desired array, then click the Show &

Configure Array button.

2. From the Replication tree, select the Local Replication icon. The Pairs

screen displays.

3. Locate the pair whose status you want to review in the Pair list, then

review the Status column. Click the Refresh Information button to

make sure the data is current.Statuses and definitions are listed in

Table 7-1

.

Table 7-1: Pair Statuses

Pair Status

Description

Action

Simplex

Status when the volume has not
have been paired or when the pair
has been deleted. The volume has
no SnapShot association with
another volume.

Paired

V-VOL is a mirror image of the P-
VOL. Updates to the P-VOL are
copied to the V-VOL.

Reverse
Synchronizing

P-VOL restoration from V-VOL is in
progress.

Split

The snapshot is executed.

Thresholdover

Threshold value for the data pool is
exceeded; warning status.

Consider increasing data
pool capacity.

Failure

Copying is suspended due to a
hardware failure or data pool
overflow. All V-VOLs become
invalid.

If data pool overflow is the
cause, increase data pool
capacity.

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