Document Outline

• HP XP P9000 Snapshot User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Overview of Business Copy/Snapshot
  • Snapshot software
  • How Business Copy/Snapshot works
    • Volume pairs: P-VOLs and V-VOLs
    • Data pools
  • Components
  • Licenses and capacity
  • Consistency groups
  • Interfaces for performing Business Copy/Snapshot operations
    • Remote Web Console
    • RAID Manager
  • Pair status
• 2 Business Copy/Snapshot planning and design
  • Consistency group system requirements
  • Data pool requirements and restrictions
  • Planning pair volumes
    • Planning V-VOLs and data pools
      • Sizing the data pool workflow
  • Calculating the number of Snapshot pairs
    • Calculating SS pairs when creating external volumes or V-VOLs
    • Calculating maximum SS pairs based on differential tables workflow
    • Calculating maximum SS pairs based on shared memory workflow
      • Calculate the capacity of the pool management block
      • Capacity of pool association information
    • Calculating maximum pairs based on pair tables
    • Determining maximum pairs allowed on your system
  • Planning for splitting pairs in consistency groups
    • Requirements and restrictions for the At-Time Split operation
    • Pair inclusion in At-Time Split operations workflow
    • Consistency maintenance workflow when sharing SS P-VOLs with Cnt Ac-J or Cnt Ac-S volumes
      • Snapshot secondary volume consistency maintenance
  • External volumes
    • External-volume failures
• 3 Business Copy/Snapshot installation and configuration
  • Installing and removing Business Copy/Snapshot
  • Configuration workflow
  • Creating data pools
  • Creating V-VOLs
  • Setting up the RAID Manager command device
• 4 Sharing Business Copy/Snapshot volumes
  • Interoperability with other software applications and functions
  • Data Retention and access attributes
  • Thin Provisioning
  • Resource Partition
  • Business Copy/Snapshot
    • Restrictions when sharing P-VOLs
  • Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous Access Journal
    • Cnt Ac-S and Cnt Ac-J volume backup in 3DC multi-target configuration
  • Auto LUN V2
  • Fast Snap
• 5 Pair operations
  • Pair operations
  • Checking the pair status
  • Pair creation workflow
    • Pair creation
    • Configuring pairs
      • Removing and moving volumes
    • Creating pairs
  • Pair split
    • Splitting pairs
    • Splitting pairs in consistency groups at a pre-determined time
  • Pair resynchronization and restoration
    • Resynchronizing and restoring pairs
  • Pair deletion
    • Deleting pairs
• 6 Business Copy/Snapshot monitoring and maintenance
  • Monitoring the storage system
    • Monitoring pair information, license capacity, status
      • Pair status definitions
    • Monitoring pair properties
    • Monitoring synchronous rates
    • Monitoring consistency groups
    • Monitoring pair operations history
    • Monitoring pool information
  • Maintaining the storage system
    • Managing data pools
      • Increasing data pool volume capacity
      • Changing pool volume threshold
      • Changing pool volume names
      • Recovering pool volumes
      • Deleting pool volumes
    • Managing virtual volumes
      • Changing virtual volume names
      • Deleting virtual volumes
    • Switching off the storage system power and replacing the microcode
      • Switching off the power supply
      • Replacing the microcode offline
• 7 Business Copy/Snapshot troubleshooting
  • General troubleshooting
    • Recovering from failure during pairresync -restore operation
    • Recovering a terminated HP-UX host server
    • Recovering a blocked pool workflow
    • Pool-related SIM entry removal workflow
      • Completing Service Information Messages
  • Troubleshooting with RAID Manager
    • Identifying errors using the log on the RAID Manager window
    • Identifying errors using the RAID Manager operation log file
• 8 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Subscription service
    • Documentation feedback
  • Related information
    • HP websites
  • Conventions for storage capacity values
  • Typographic conventions
• A RAID Manager command reference
  • RAID Manager commands for Remote Web Console operations
  • Remote Web Console and RAID Manager pair status names
  • Statuses required for RAID Manager pair operations
• B Snapshot GUI reference
  • Pools window
  • Selected pool volume window
  • Create Pools wizard
    • Create Pools window
    • Confirm window
  • Expand Pool wizard
    • Expand Pool window
    • Confirm window
  • Edit Pools wizard
    • Edit Pools window
    • Confirm window
  • Delete Pools wizard
    • Delete Pools window
    • Confirm window
  • Restore Pools window
  • Complete SIMs window
  • Select Pool window
  • Select Pool Volumes window
  • Pool Property window
  • Create Pairs wizard
    • Select Pair Configuration window
    • Select Primary Volumes window
    • Select Pool window
    • Select Secondary Volumes window
    • Edit Mirror Units window
    • Confirm window
• C Pair operations (secondary window)
  • Pair operations workflow
  • Checking pair status
  • Creating a pair
    • Creating pairs in a consistency group
  • Splitting pairs
  • Resynchronizing pairs
  • Restoring pairs
  • Deleting pairs
    • Deleting a single pair
    • Deleting multiple pairs related to a port or host group
    • Deleting multiple pairs related to a pool
• D Business Copy/Snapshot monitoring and maintenance (secondary window)
  • Monitoring the system in the secondary window
    • Monitoring pair status
      • Pair status definitions
      • Statuses required for pair operations
    • Monitoring pair volume details
    • Monitoring S-VOL path information
    • Monitoring number of pairs and license information
    • Monitoring pair operation history
  • Maintaining the system
• E Snapshot GUI reference (secondary window)
  • Pair Operation window
    • Volume list
    • Preview list
    • Command menu
  • History window
    • Reference codes
  • Snapshot window
• Glossary
• Index