HP XP RAID Manager Software - Manual (Page 9)

Components
An SS system typically consists of the following components:
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RWC
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SS and Business Copy (BC/SS) software
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RAID Manager (RAID Manager)
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A pair of volumes (P-VOL and S-VOL)
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A data pool
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A consistency group
Licenses and capacity
To use SS, BC/SS must be installed on the same system. You must provide sufficient licensed
capacity for both SS and BC/SS.
SS uses a V-VOL management area for managing V-VOLs and data pools. The V-VOL management
area is created when additional shared memory is installed.
The V-VOL management area consists of the following:
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Pool management block
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Pool association information
The following table shows the volumes and capacities for calculating the usable capacity for SS.
The total applicable capacity must be less than the capacity you have licensed for SS. If you need
more licensed capacity, contact HP Technical Support.
Applicable capacity Volumes to be added
Normal VOL or DP-VOL Volume type Software
Volume capacity Normal VOL P-VOL SS
Pool capacity used by the
volume DP-VOL
Volume capacity Normal VOL Pool volume (pool-VOL)
Related topics
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(page 16) .
Consistency groups
Define SS pair operations in consistency groups to perform the operations on multiple pairs at the
same time. Set up consistency groups during pair creation.
For more information about creating pairs, see “Pair creation” (page 35) .
Interfaces for performing Business Copy/Snapshot operations
You perform setup and pair operations using a combination of the following:
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RWC. For more information about RWC, see “Remote Web Console” (page 10) .
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RAID Manager (RAID Manager). For more information about RAID Manager, see “RAID
Manager ” (page 10) .
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