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3 Preparing for Business Copy
Operations
This chapter describes the requirements and preparations you should know before attempting Business
Copy operations.
System Requirements
Business Copy operations involve the storage system containing the primary and secondary volumes
and the licensed Business Copy program product enabled on the Remote Web Console. The system
requirements for Business Copy are as follows.
Volume Requirements
The requirements for the volumes to be used as Business Copy pairs are as follows:
• RAID level
The RAID level combinations of the P-VOL and the S-VOL of a Business Copy pair must be one
of the following.
Table 7 Supported Combinations of RAID Levels
P-VOL S-VOL
RAID1
RAID5 RAID6
RAID1 OK OK OK
RAID5 OK OK OK
RAID6 OK OK OK
• Types of volumes
Besides normal volumes, you can use external volumes, custom-sized volumes and LUSE volumes.
When using external volumes, customized volumes, or LUSE volumes, note the following points:
• External
volumes
The license of External Storage is required.
• Custom-sized volumes
The license for VLL is required. To create a Business Copy pair with custom-sized volumes,
P-VOL must be paired with S-VOLs of the same capacity and the same emulation type.
• LUSE volumes
The license for LUSE is required. To create a Business Copy pair with LUSE volumes, you must
make sure that P-VOL must be paired with S-VOL of the same size and the same structure.
For example, if the P-VOL is a LUSE volume where volumes of 1 GB, 2 GB and 3 GB are
combined in this order, you must make sure that the S-VOL is a LUSE volume where volumes
of 1 GB, 2 GB and 3 GB are combined in the same order.
• Emulation type
Only volumes of the following emulation types can be used: OPEN-3, OPEN-8, OPEN-9, OPEN-E,
OPEN-K, OPEN-L, or OPEN-V.
• Logical DKC (LDKC), CU, LDEV number
You can use volumes whose LDKC:CU:LDEV (a combination of an LDKC number, a CU number,
and an LDEV number) is within the range of 00:00:00 to 00:FE:FF, or 01:00:00 to 01:FE:FF.
• MU number
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