HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console Software User Manual
HP Storage
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- About this guide
- 1 Continuous Access XP Journal
- Overview of copy solutions
- Overview of Continuous Access XP Journal
- Functionality
- Components
- Figure 2 Continuous Access XP Journal components
- Figure 3 Connection configuration for multiple secondary disk arrays
- Local disk arrays
- Main and remote control units (primary and secondary disk arrays)
- Journal groups
- Data volume pairs
- Journal volumes
- Consistency groups
- Remote copy connections
- Initiator ports and RCU target ports
- Continuous Access XP Journal Graphical User Interface
- Host failover software
- Remote copy operations
- Journal group operations
- Continuous Access XP Journal data volume pair status
- Continuous Access XP Journal operations requirements and restrictions
- System requirements
- One-to-one volume copy operations
- Logical unit (LU) types
- Journal groups
- Accessing Continuous Access XP Journal primary and secondary data volumes
- Cache and nonvolatile storage (NVS)
- Duplicate volumes
- Port configurations
- Installing hardware
- Enabling Continuous Access XP Journal options
- Planning for journal volumes
- Considerations
- Planning process
- Factors that determine the data transfer speed between the primary and secondary disk arrays
- Configuring primary and secondary disk arrays for Continuous Access XP Journal operations
- Combining Continuous Access XP Journal with other data management functions
- Table 18 Whether non-Continuous Access XP Journal volumes can be used as Continuous Access XP Journal volumes
- Combining Continuous Access XP Journal with Virtual LUN
- Combining Continuous Access XP Journal with Cache LUN XP
- Combining Continuous Access XP Journal with LUN Manager
- Combining Continuous Access XP Journal and Performance Control XP
- Combining Continuous Access XP Journal and Business Copy XP
- Table 19 Host pair status reporting for Continuous Access XP Journal/Business Copy XP shared volumes
- Table 20 Data currency of a shared Continuous Access XP Journal/Business Copy XP volume
- Figure 14 Shared Continuous Access XP Journal secondary data volume and Business Copy XP P-VOL
- Figure 15 Shared Continuous Access XP Journal secondary data volume and Business Copy XP P-VOL
- Figure 16 Shared Continuous Access XP Journal primary data volume and Business Copy XP P-VOL, and Continuous Access XP Journal secondary data volume and Business Copy XP P-VOL
- Figure 17 Business Copy XP S-VOL in PSUS status functioning as Continuous Access XP Journal primary data volume
- Figure 18 Restoring Business Copy XP P-VOLs, step 1
- Figure 19 Restoring Business Copy XP P-VOLs, step 2
- Figure 20 Restoring Business Copy XP P-VOLs, step 3
- Figure 21 Restoring Business Copy XP P-VOLs, step 4
- Figure 22 Restoring Business Copy XP P-VOLs, step 5
- Figure 23 Restoring Business Copy XP P-VOLs, step 6
- Figure 24 Restoring Business Copy XP P-VOLs, step 7
- Figure 25 Restoring Business Copy XP P-VOLs, step 8
- Figure 26 Restoring Business Copy XP P-VOLs, step 9
- Combining Continuous Access XP Journal with Continuous Access XP (3DC cascading configuration)
- Combining Continuous Access XP Journal with Continuous Access XP Synchronous (3DC multi-target configuration)
- Figure 29 3DC multi-target configuration (combining Continuous Access XP Journal with Continuous Access XP Synchronous)
- Hardware configurations
- Setup procedure
- Recovering from primary site failures
- Changing to 3DC multi-target configurations after recovering from primary site failures
- Transferring business tasks from Continuous Access XP secondary sites to primary sites (in 3DC cascading configurations)
- Transferring business tasks from Continuous Access XP secondary sites to primary sites (in 3DC multi-target configurations)
- Recovering from primary site and Continuous Access XP Synchronous secondary site failures
- Transferring business tasks from Continuous Access XP Journal secondary sites to primary sites
- Combining Continuous Access XP Journal and LUN Security XP Extension
- Configuring disk arrays and logical paths
- Displaying the DKC Operation pane
- Configuring port attributes
- Associating primary and remote disk arrays and configuring logical paths (Add DKC)
- Changing options for logical paths and disk arrays
- Adding logical paths
- Deleting logical paths
- Viewing the status of logical paths
- Removing the relationship between primary and secondary disk arrays
- Using journal groups
- Displaying the Journal Operation pane
- Registering journal volumes in journal groups
- Deleting journal volumes from journal groups
- Displaying detailed information about journal groups
- Changing options for journal groups
- Deleting journal groups
- Splitting mirrors (Pairsplit-r: suspending copy operations)
- Restoring mirrors (Pairresync: resuming copy operations)
- Deleting data volumes from mirrors (Pairsplit-S: ending copy operations)
- Performing Continuous Access XP Journal pair operations
- Displaying the Pair Operation pane
- Creating a pair of data volumes (Paircreate)
- Displaying detailed information about a pair of data volumes
- Changing options for data volume pairs
- Splitting a pair of data volumes
- Restoring a pair of data volumes
- Deleting a pair of data volumes
- Creating a Point-in-Time copy of data volumes
- Monitoring remote copy operations
- Viewing history of data volume pair operations
- Performing optional operations
- Disaster recovery operations
- Troubleshooting
- Power management for disk arrays and network relay devices
- Pinned track recovery for Continuous Access XP Journal volumes
- SIM reporting
- Index