Change pair option dialog box, Display filter dialog box – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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Description

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In the Preview list, select one pair in one mirror, and then other pairs in the mirror is excluded.

Specify whether to release the pair(s) forcibly. When the status of the pair(s) to be released is
Simplex or Deleting, the default setting is Force. Otherwise, the default setting is Normal:

Delete Mode

Force: The pair(s) is forcibly be released even if the primary storage system is unable to
communicate with the secondary storage system. This option may be used to free a host
waiting for device-end from a primary storage system that cannot communicate with its the
secondary storage system, thus allowing host operations to continue.

If you specify Force when the pair status is other than Simplex, Range is set to Mirror.

When you delete a pair forcibly by specifying Volume for Range, other pairs in the same
journal as the specified pair is suspended by failure.

Normal: The pair(s) is be released only if the primary storage system is able to change the
pair status of the primary and S-VOLs to Simplex.

Applies the settings to the Preview list in the Pair Operation window.

Set

Discards the settings and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Change Pair Option dialog box

This dialog box lets you change the Error Level, which is used for splitting a pair when a failure
occurs.
See

“Pair maintenance—change the pair-split option ” (page 92)

for complete instructions.

Description

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Sets whether to split one or all pairs in a mirror—options are Volume and Mirror.

Error Level

Mirror: If a failure occurs with a pair, all pairs in the mirror where the pair belongs are split.

Volume: If a failure occurs with a pair, only the pair are split.

Sets whether or not to copy cache-fast-write data to the S-VOL—options are Only P-VOL, which
does not copy the data, and Copy to S-VOL.

CFW

Applies the settings to the Preview list in the Pair Operation window.

Set

Discards the settings and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Display Filter dialog box

This dialog box lets you filter pair information shown on the Pair Operations window.

Pair Operation window

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