HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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Table 1 Methods for preserving consistency for each copy type

Consistency preservation method

Consistency group ID

specification method

Consistency group ID specified

Copy type

The NORMAL ATTIME Suspend
function or the Cnt Ac-J Z ATTIME

Consistency group IDs are
specified in the Copy Group

Optional

Business Copy Z

Suspend function can be used to

Attributes panel in which the

preserve the consistency of copy
groups.

copy group attributes are
defined for the consistency
group ID already registered in
the storage system by Remote
Web Console.

The Cnt-Ac S Z consistency
preservation function in Business

When working with Cnt-Ac S
Z, you don't need to register

Optional

Continuous
Access
Synchronous Z

Continuity Manager can be used

the consistency group ID in the

to preserve consistency. For

storage system. Consistency

details about how to implement

group IDs are specified in the

this, see

“The Continuous Access

Copy Group Attributes panel

Synchronous Consistency
preservation function” (page 91)

.

in which the copy group
attributes are defined for the

When the Open/MF Consistency
Preservation Function is used,

consistency group ID for Cnt-Ac
S Z.

consistency is only preserved for
the Cnt-Ac S Z copy group in the
storage system that contains the
combined consistency group. For
details on the Open/MF
Consistency Preservation
Function, see

“Open/MF

consistency groups” (page 27)

.

Consistency is preserved by using
only the TrueCopy Asynchronous

Consistency group IDs are
specified in the Copy Group

Yes

TrueCopy
Asynchronous for
Mainframe

for Mainframe functions of the

Attributes panel in which the

storage system. If the ATTIME

copy group attributes are

suspend function is used,

defined for the consistency

TrueCopy Asynchronous for

group ID already registered in

Mainframe copy groups that are

the storage system by Remote
Web Console.

configured across multiple
storage systems can be
suspended at the same time.

Consistency is preserved by using
only the Cnt Ac-J Z functions of

The journal group number
already registered in the

Yes

Non-4x4
configurations

Continuous
Access Journal Z

the storage system. If the Cnt Ac-J

storage system by the Remote

Z ATTIME suspend function is

Web Console is specified as

used for BC Z copy groups that

the consistency group ID. In

link with Cnt Ac-J Z copy groups,

Business Continuity Manager,

BC Z copy groups that are

the journal group number for

configured across multiple

the primary site is used as the

storage systems can be
suspended at the same time.

consistency group ID, and the
journal group number for the
secondary site is used as the
sub consistency group ID. The
consistency group ID and sub
consistency group ID are
specified in the Copy Group
Attributes panel in which the
copy group attributes are
defined.

For EXCTG, the EXCTG ID
(Forward/Reverse) is specified

Yes

4x4
configurations

in the Copy Group Detail
Definition panel. For details

Grouping to simplify volume operations

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