HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Overview of HP XP7 for Business Continuity Manager ..................................20
Why use Business Continuity Manager?....................................................................................20
Communication with HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition ..................................................21
Products that can be controlled by Business Continuity Manager...................................................22
Business Copy Z (BC Z)......................................................................................................22
Continuous Access Synchronous Z (Cnt Ac-S Z)......................................................................23
TrueCopy Asynchronous for Mainframe (TCA)........................................................................23
Continuous Access Journal Z (Cnt Ac-J Z)..............................................................................24
Remote volume operations.......................................................................................................24
Grouping to simplify volume operations.....................................................................................25
Copy groups.....................................................................................................................25
Consistency groups............................................................................................................25
How to preserve consistency...........................................................................................26
How to check whether consistency is preserved.................................................................27
Open/MF consistency groups.............................................................................................28
Copy group containers.......................................................................................................29
Extended consistency groups...............................................................................................30
Consistency times and consistency delta values......................................................................32
Description of consistency times and consistency delta values and how to use them...............32
How to view consistency group and EXCTG values............................................................35
Terminology by copy type...................................................................................................36
Data center configurations.......................................................................................................36
2DC configuration.............................................................................................................36
3DC Cascade (Cnt Ac-S Z x Cnt Ac-J Z) configuration.............................................................36
3DC Cascade (Cnt Ac-J Z x Cnt Ac-J Z) configuration..............................................................37
3DC Multi-Target (Cnt Ac-S Z x Cnt Ac-J Z) configuration.........................................................37
3DC Multi-Target (Cnt Ac-J Z x Cnt Ac-J Z) configuration..........................................................38
Delta Resync configuration..................................................................................................38
2DC configuration with HyperSwap and Continuous Access Journal Z......................................38
4x4 configuration..............................................................................................................39
4x4x4 Cascade configuration.............................................................................................40
4x4x4 Delta Resync configuration........................................................................................41
Compatible FlashCopy linkage configuration.........................................................................42
Functions supporting automatic operation (BCM Monitor).............................................................42
Business Continuity Manager functions......................................................................................43
Disaster recovery functions..................................................................................................43
Operational testing function................................................................................................43
Functions that support copy group definitions and operations...................................................44
Specified time suspend functions..........................................................................................44
Functions for acquiring volume information............................................................................44
Logical Path Control function................................................................................................45
For monitoring events and errors..........................................................................................45
Functionalities dependent on the storage system..........................................................................45
Storage system identification ...................................................................................................48
Setting up Business Continuity Manager....................................................................................50
2 Business Continuity Manager with replication products..................................51
Storage system settings and copy group definitions.....................................................................51
Replication products and data center configurations....................................................................52
The 2DC configuration.......................................................................................................53
The 3DC configuration.......................................................................................................53
The 3DC Cascade (Cnt Ac-S Z x Cnt Ac-J Z) configuration..................................................55
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