HP XP Business Copy Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Business Copy XP (BC) for the Array ..................................................... 9
Overview of BC operations .......................................................................................................... 9
BC components .................................................................................................................... 9
BC volume pairs (P-VOLs and S-VOLs) ............................................................................. 10
Copy Threshold option ................................................................................................. 11
Cascade pairs ............................................................................................................. 12
BC software on the Command View XP management station ............................................. 12
BC requirements for the array .............................................................................................. 12
Maximum number of pairs for the array .......................................................................... 14
BC operations .................................................................................................................... 20
Set reserve attribute operation ....................................................................................... 20
Reset reserve attribute operation .................................................................................... 21
Paircreate operation ..................................................................................................... 21
Initial copy operation ................................................................................................... 21
Update copy operation ................................................................................................ 22
Cascade function ......................................................................................................... 23
Pairsplit operation ........................................................................................................ 23
Pairresync operations ................................................................................................... 24
Forward pairresync operation ........................................................................................ 24
Backward pairresync operation ..................................................................................... 25
Pair status and time required for pairresync ..................................................................... 30
Pairsplit-E operation (suspend) ....................................................................................... 30
Pairsplit-S operation (delete) .......................................................................................... 31
BC options ........................................................................................................................ 31
Swap&Freeze option .................................................................................................... 31
Host I/O Performance option ........................................................................................ 32
Cascade function ............................................................................................................... 32
At-Time Split function .......................................................................................................... 36
Enabling the At-Time Split function using RAID Manager ................................................... 37
Pair status .......................................................................................................................... 38
Cautions on switching off the power supply ........................................................................... 42
Cautions on using the XP10000 ........................................................................................... 42
Preparing for BC operations ....................................................................................................... 43
System requirements ........................................................................................................... 43
Preparing for BC operations ................................................................................................ 43
Combining BC with other data management operations .......................................................... 44
Combining BC and Continuous Access XP operations ............................................................. 45
Combining BC and Continuous Access XP Journal operations .................................................. 48
Combining BC with LUN Security XP Extension ...................................................................... 51
Copying access attributes .................................................................................................... 52
License capacity of LUN Security XP Extension ........................................................................ 54
Starting BC .............................................................................................................................. 55
BC main screen .................................................................................................................. 55
Volume list .................................................................................................................. 58
Detail window ............................................................................................................. 61
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