Document Outline

• HP XP7 Business Copy User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Business Copy overview
  • Hardware and software components
    • Interface tools
      • Remote Web Console
      • RAID Manager
    • Consistency groups
  • Volume pairs
    • Cascaded pairs
  • Initial and update copy operations
    • Initial copy workflow
    • Update copy workflow
• 2 Business Copy system requirements and planning
  • Business Copy system requirements
  • BC licensed capacity and licensed capacity requirements
  • Determining capacity of BC pairs in XP7 workflow
    • Differential and pair tables
      • Software applications that use tables
    • Tables and installed shared memory
    • Calculating the number of tables if you are sharing tables
    • Calculating the number of tables for emulation types that are not OPEN-V
    • Calculating the number of tables for OPEN-V emulation types
    • Determining the number of tables required for Business Copy
    • Determining the number of used tables in the storage system
    • Calculating the maximum number of BC pairs
  • Quick Split and Steady Split performance planning
  • Performance planning and calibrating your XP7 storage system
    • Guidelines for maximizing host server I/O performance
    • Workflow for maximizing Quick Restore performance
  • Splitting pairs using consistency groups
    • Using consistency group pair-split with shared volumes
      • Requirements, restrictions, and guidelines for using consistency group pair-split with shared BC and Cnt Ac-S or Cnt Ac-J volumes
    • Supported pair statuses for consistency group pair-split
• 3 Sharing Business Copy volumes
  • Sharing volumes with Cache Residency
  • Sharing volumes and Data Retention access attributes
    • Access attributes and supported Business Copy tasks
    • Access attribute setting for existing pair volumes
  • Sharing volumes with Thin Provisioning and Smart Tiers
  • Sharing volumes with LUN Manager
  • Sharing volumes with Resource Partition
  • Sharing volumes with Fast Snap
  • Sharing volumes with Continuous Access Synchronous
  • Sharing volumes with Continuous Access Journal
  • Sharing volumes with External Storage
  • Sharing volumes with Auto LUN
    • Assigning BC volumes to volumes reserved for Auto LUN workflow
• 4 Configuring Business Copy
  • Workflow for setting up Business Copy
    • Preparing volumes for BC
    • System options that affect performance
    • Enabling system options
• 5 Managing Business Copy pairs
  • Workflow for managing Business Copy pairs
  • BC pair status checks
  • BC pair creation
    • Workflow for creating Business Copy pairs
    • Prerequisites for creating BC pairs
    • Creating BC pairs
    • Creating L1 and L2 pairs with different topologies
      • Refining pair topology
    • Suppressing update copy operations during pair creation
  • Suspending BC pair creation
  • Changing BC pair options
  • Splitting BC pairs
    • Pair splitting methods
    • Prerequisites for splitting BC pairs
    • Workflow for ensuring data consistency
    • Workflow for quickly splitting existing pairs
    • Splitting BC pairs
    • Workflow for consistency group pair-split
      • Restrictions for consistency group pair-split
      • Workflow for maintaining consistent Business Copy secondary volume backups
    • Workflow for ensuring snapshot data is consistent with P-VOL data
  • BC pair resynchronization
    • Types of pair resynchronization
      • Forward resynchronization
      • Reverse resynchronization
    • Workflow for resynchronizing BC pairs
    • Workflow for restoring BC pairs
    • Resynchronizing or restoring BC pairs
  • Suppressing update copy operations during pair restoration
  • Workflow for setting the RAID level
  • BC pair deletion
    • Prerequisites for deleting BC pairs
    • Workflow for deleting BC pairs
    • Deleting BC pairs
    • MP blades and deleting pairs
• 6 Monitoring and maintaining Business Copy
  • Monitoring the Business Copy system
    • Viewing pair information for local replication
    • Monitoring BC pair activity and status
      • The RWC pair status names and descriptions
      • RAID Manager pair status names
      • Pair status and supported pair user tasks
      • L1, L2 pair status and supported pair user tasks
      • Unaffected S-VOL status and pair user tasks
    • Monitoring BC pair, volume details
    • Monitoring BC pair synchronous rates
    • Monitoring consistency groups
      • Viewing consistency group properties
      • Viewing a list of Fast Snap pairs
    • Monitoring pair user task history
  • Workflow for maintaining the system
    • Pair user tasks during system and device maintenance
• 7 Troubleshooting Business Copy
  • BC pair tasks and display troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting pinned tracks
  • Troubleshooting extended copy times
  • Locating and interpreting error codes and logs using the RAID Manager
    • Troubleshooting consistency group pair-split failures
• 8 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Subscription service
    • Documentation feedback
  • Related information
    • HP websites
  • Conventions for storage capacity values
  • Typographic conventions
• A Interface support for BC user tasks and options
  • Supported Remote Web Console and RAID Manager user tasks and options
  • Supported Business Copy consistency group user tasks and options
• B Business Copy GUI reference
  • Replication window
  • Local Replication window
  • View Pair Properties window
  • View Pair Synchronous Rate window
  • Histories window
  • Consistency Group Properties window
  • Create Pairs wizard
    • Select Pair Configuration window
    • Select Primary Volumes window
    • Select Secondary Volumes window
    • Confirm window
  • Split Pairs wizard
    • Split Pairs window
    • Confirm window
  • Resync Pairs wizard
    • Resync Pairs window
    • Confirm window
  • Suspend Pairs window
  • Delete Pairs window
  • Edit Mirror Units dialog box
  • Change Options dialog box
  • Edit Local Replica Options wizard
    • Edit Local Replica Options window
    • Confirm window
• Glossary
• Index