Document Outline

• HP StoreVirtual Storage Remote Copy User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Understanding and planning Remote Copy
  • How Remote Copy works
    • Graphical representations of Remote Copy
      • Copying the primary snapshot to the remote snapshot
      • Graphical legend for Remote Copy icons
    • Remote Copy and volume replication
    • Uses for Remote Copy
    • Benefits of Remote Copy
  • Planning for Remote Copy
    • Planning the remote snapshot
      • Prerequisites for creating a remote snapshot
      • Logging in to primary and remote management groups
      • Designating or creating the remote volume
  • Using schedules for Remote Copy
    • Planning the Remote Copy schedule
      • Recurrence
        • Testing the copy time
      • Capacity
      • Retention policies
    • Best practices
• 2 Using Remote Copy
  • Working with remote snapshots
    • Application-managed snapshots
    • Creating a remote snapshot
      • Best practice
      • Getting there
      • Creating the primary snapshot
      • Creating primary snapshots for volume sets
      • Creating a remote volume
        • Designating an existing volume as a remote volume
        • Creating a new remote volume manually
        • Creating a remote volume while creating a remote snapshot
      • What the system does
      • Creating the first copy
    • Viewing a list of remote snapshots
    • Setting the remote bandwidth
      • Selecting remote bandwidth rate
    • Canceling a remote snapshot
    • Editing a remote snapshot
    • Deleting a remote snapshot
  • Monitoring remote snapshots
    • Monitoring details from the Remote Snapshots feature
      • Viewing information in the Remote Snapshots tab
      • Viewing the status in the Remote Snapshot Details window
  • Scheduling remote snapshots
  • Best practices for scheduling remote snapshots
  • Creating the schedule
    • Creating the schedule for volume sets
    • What the system does
  • Pausing and resuming scheduled snapshots
  • Editing the schedule to remote snapshot a volume
  • Deleting the remote snapshot schedule
  • Failover and failback using Remote Copy
    • Planning failover
  • Using the Volume Failover/Failback Wizard
    • Converting a primary volume to a remote volume
    • Using failover to a remote volume
  • Resuming production after failover
    • Synchronizing data after failover
      • Example scenario
    • Returning operations to original primary site
      • Synchronizing the data between the acting primary volume and the original primary volume
      • Creating a new primary volume at the original production site
    • Setting up a new production site
    • Making the backup site into the new production site
  • Rolling back primary and remote volumes
    • Rolling back a primary volume
    • Rolling back a remote volume
  • Using remote snapshots for data migration and data mining
    • Creating a split mirror
  • Disassociating remote management groups
• 3 Sample Remote Copy configurations
  • Using Remote Copy for business continuance
    • Achieving high availability
    • Configuration for high availability
    • How this configuration works for high availability
    • Best practices
      • Remote snapshots with volume replication
      • Example configuration
        • How it works
    • Achieving affordable disaster recovery
    • Configuration for affordable disaster recovery
    • How this works for affordable disaster recovery
    • Best practices
      • Select an optimum recurrence schedule.
      • Use remote snapshots in conjunction with local, synchronous volume replication
        • Example configuration
  • Using Remote Copy for off-site backup and recovery
    • Achieving off-site backup
    • Configuration for off-site backup and recovery
      • Configuration diagram
    • How this configuration works for off-site backup
      • Best practices
      • Example configuration
    • Achieving nondestructive rollback
    • Configuration for nondestructive rollback
    • How this configuration works for nondestructive rollback
    • Best practices
      • Roll back the primary snapshot and keep the remote snapshots as a backup.
  • Using Remote Copy for data migration or cloning
    • Achieving data migration
    • Configuration for data migration
    • How this configuration works for data migration
• 4 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Subscription service
  • Rack stability
  • Customer self repair
  • HP Insight Remote Support Software
  • Related information
    • HP websites
• 5 Documentation feedback
• Glossary
• Index