HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 17)

Table 6 General system requirements (continued)
Requirement Item
Supported host platforms •
HP-UX
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IBM AIX
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Red Hat Linux
•
Oracle Solaris
• Windows server 2003
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Windows Server 2008
• VMware ESX
Contact your HP account team for the latest information.
Data path •
8 paths at maximum, from MCU to RCU.
•
Fibre Channel, direct or with switch connections. See “Planning data paths” (page 25) .
Logical paths •
Maximum of eight from primary system to secondary system.
• Logical paths are established for primary and secondary systems CUs separately.
•
Maximum number of logical paths allowed for a primary system is 32 (8 paths per
secondary system x 4 secondary systems per primary system).
Maximum number of
secondary systems • Maximum of four secondary system per primary system.
•
Each secondary system CU must be added separately to a primary system.
Pair volumes • P-VOL and S-VOL must be equal in size.
•
The maximum size of P-VOL and S-VOL is 4,194,304.000MB(8,589,934,592 blocks).
However, when primary system or secondary system is XP12000 Disk Array/XP10000
Disk Array, it is 2,949,120.00MB(6,039,797,760 blocks).
•
The minimum size of P-VOL and S-VOL is 48.000MB(96,000 blocks) for OPEN-V. It
is 36.000MB(72,000 blocks), except for OPEN-V.
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One P-VOL may only be copied to one S-VOL.
•
P-VOL and S-VOL can be shared with other program product volumes. See “Volume
types that can be shared with Continuous Access Synchronous” (page 31) .
See “Planning volume pairs” (page 20) on for more information.
Limited per P9500 system. See “Maximum number of pairs supported” (page 22) . Number of pairs
Maximum number: 128 (0x00 to 0x7F) Number of consistency
group
Host failover software • Required for disaster recovery.
•
Recommended for data migration.
See “Host failover software” (page 30) for more information.
Continuous Access
Synchronous Interfaces • Remote Web Console
Required ◦
◦ Storage Administrator (Remote Copy) role is required. The primary system must be
LAN-attached to a Remote Web Console computer.
◦ The secondary system should be attached using a separate LAN at the remote site.
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RAID Manager
◦ Optional
◦ Command device required for each RAID Manager instance. See the HP P9000
RAID Manager User Guide for information on setting up and using RAID Manager.
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