HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Business Copy overview..............................................................................6
Hardware and software components...........................................................................................6
Interface tools......................................................................................................................6
Remote Web Console......................................................................................................6
RAID Manager...............................................................................................................7
Consistency groups..............................................................................................................7
Volume pairs............................................................................................................................7
Cascaded pairs...................................................................................................................7
Initial and update copy operations..............................................................................................8
Initial copy workflow............................................................................................................8
Update copy workflow.........................................................................................................9
2 Business Copy system requirements and planning.........................................11
Business Copy system requirements...........................................................................................11
BC licensed capacity and licensed capacity requirements............................................................12
Determining capacity of BC pairs in XP7 workflow......................................................................12
Differential and pair tables..................................................................................................13
Software applications that use tables...............................................................................13
Tables and installed shared memory.....................................................................................13
Calculating the number of tables if you are sharing tables.......................................................13
Calculating the number of tables for emulation types that are not OPEN-V.................................14
Calculating the number of tables for OPEN-V emulation types..................................................14
Determining the number of tables required for Business Copy..................................................15
Determining the number of used tables in the storage system...................................................15
Calculating the maximum number of BC pairs.......................................................................15
Quick Split and Steady Split performance planning....................................................................16
Performance planning and calibrating your XP7 storage system....................................................16
Guidelines for maximizing host server I/O performance.........................................................17
Workflow for maximizing Quick Restore performance.............................................................18
Splitting pairs using consistency groups.....................................................................................18
Using consistency group pair-split with shared volumes...........................................................18
Requirements, restrictions, and guidelines for using consistency group pair-split with shared
BC and Cnt Ac-S or Cnt Ac-J volumes...............................................................................20
Supported pair statuses for consistency group pair-split...........................................................21
3 Sharing Business Copy volumes..................................................................23
Sharing volumes with Cache Residency.....................................................................................23
Sharing volumes and Data Retention access attributes.................................................................23
Access attributes and supported Business Copy tasks..............................................................23
Access attribute setting for existing pair volumes....................................................................24
Sharing volumes with Thin Provisioning and Smart Tiers...............................................................25
Sharing volumes with LUN Manager.........................................................................................25
Sharing volumes with Resource Partition.....................................................................................26
Sharing volumes with Fast Snap................................................................................................26
Sharing volumes with Continuous Access Synchronous.................................................................27
Sharing volumes with Continuous Access Journal........................................................................28
Sharing volumes with External Storage......................................................................................28
Sharing volumes with Auto LUN................................................................................................28
Assigning BC volumes to volumes reserved for Auto LUN workflow...........................................28
4 Configuring Business Copy........................................................................30
Workflow for setting up Business Copy......................................................................................30
Preparing volumes for BC....................................................................................................30
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